KROK 1 2010 – Question 135 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy

Examination of a patient with impaired blood coagulation revealed thrombosis of a branch of inferior mesenteric artery. What bowel segment is damaged?

  1. A. Caecum
  2. B. Colon ascendens
  3. C. Ileum
  4. D. Colon sigmoideum
  5. E. Colon transversum
Hint

Remember where the territory of the superior mesenteric artery ends and that of the inferior one begins along the large bowel, following the midgut-hindgut border.

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