Providers can use ultrasound to detect peritoneal free fluid and guide procedures like paracentesis.
Paracolic gutter fluid ultrasound.
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Although ultrasound is sensitive to detect small amounts of peritoneal free fluid it cannot accurately differentiate types of peritoneal free fluid.
Etiologically it means a channel adjacent to the abdominal wall.
Clear fluid without internal echoes is likely to be reactive.
Collections of peritoneal free fluid appear black or anechoic on ultrasound imaging.
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Between the outer wall of the colon and back side of the abdominal wall there is an open space known as the paracolic gutter.
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Left paracolic gutter inferior to spleen.
In thin patients relatively small volume of fluid can be found.
It is the depression between the postero lateral wall of the abdomen and the lateral margins of the ascending and descending colon.