292 THE ABDOMEN AND PELVIS 



taken with the body erect, the presence of the pylorus on the 

 transpyloric plane in such a photograph at once suggests the 

 probability of its immobilisation by adhesions in the pyloro-cystic 

 region (Fig. 92). 



FIG. 92. High Position of the Pylorus. At the subsequent operation 

 adhesions were found fixing the pylorus to the liver, gall-bladder, and 

 neighbouring structures. The black circle is on the umbilicus (fourth 

 lumbar vertebra). 



Traube's Space corresponds to that part of the stomach 

 which is in direct contact with the diaphragm and under cover 

 of the costal margin. It is bounded (Fig. 150) above and to the 

 right by the inferior margin of the left lobe of the liver ; above, 



