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Chapter 86 - Part A: The Peritoneum Is Not a Space: Why Fluids, Infection, and Cancer Spread the Way They Do
In this BoardsCast episode, we open Tobias Chapter 86 – Peritoneum & Retroperitoneum and reframe the peritoneum not as an “empty space,” but as a dynamic, vascular, absorptive surface that determines how fluid, infection, inflammation, and cancer move through the abdomen.
Understanding this concept transforms how you interpret peritonitis, effusion, neoplasia, and surgical contamination — and explains why abdominal disease behaves the way it does.
You’ll learn:
- Why the peritoneum acts like a giant sponge, not a container
- How fluid moves across peritoneal surfaces (and why it accumulates)
- How infection spreads in predictable patterns
- Why cancer “seeds” the abdomen instead of forming single masses
- The difference between transudate, modified transudate, and exudate
- Why retroperitoneal disease behaves completely differently
- Board-relevant patterns in septic vs non-septic peritonitis
This episode gives you the physiologic foundations needed to understand almost every abdominal disease process.
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