Eurasian Journal of Veterinary Sciences ()
The effects of the varying filling degrees of the stomach on the topographies of the kidneys in cat
Abstract
The aim of the reported study was to investigate the effect of the varying degrees of fullness of the stomach on the topographies of the kidneys in cat: with this aim eighteen aduit cats of different sex and age were used as a material, cats were divided into 3 groups, of which, group 1 had empty, group 2 had half tilled and group 3 had maximum filled stomach, the kidneys were dissected and abdominal cavity was cross sectioned transversalfy. This investigation is different from that of Deniz and Klesty in that transversal cross sectiones of the abdominal cavity were done alter the materials were deep Ireezed; the topographies of the left and right kidneys, and their relations with the other organs were determined; following dissection the photographes of mentioned organs were taken: it was detected that the kidneys were retroperitoneally situated, yellow-red and bean shaped: generally, the right kidney was in front of the left one, but it was contrary to this stuation in one material, the kidneys were displaced aboul one vertebrae lenght in caudal, cranial and dorsal direction depending on the filling degrees ol the stomach, the left kindney was adjacent to the descendent colon and left pancreatic lobe ventromedially, the spleen cramally. the psoas muscles dorsally, the left ovary (in female) caudally, the right kidney was ad|acent to the caudal process and rigt lateral hepatic lobe craniatly, the psoas muscles dorsally, the beginning portion of descendent part of duodenum ventromedial^ and the right ovary caudally.
