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Table 1 Common sites for peritoneal implants

From: CT imaging of peritoneal carcinomatosis with surgical correlation: a pictorial review

Gravity depended areas—areas of arrested flow

 Pouch of Douglas—rectouterine/retrovesical space

 Right lower quadrant—ileocecal region

 Left lower quadrant—superior aspect of sigmoid

 Right paracolic gutter

 Pouch of Morrison

Areas of fluid resorption

 Greater omentum

 Right subdiaphragmatic space