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The human stomach is the organ of the gastrointestinal tract located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen. Its prime role is to accommodate and digest food. The shape of the stomach is greatly modified by changes within itself and in the surrounding viscera such that no one form can be described as typical. The existing classification of anatomical variants of the human stomach is based on radiological data. Four main types are proposed: J-shaped, hourglass (fish-hook), steer-horn and cascade (Fig. 1.1). The chief configurations under normal physiological conditions are determined by the amount of the contents, the stage of the digestive process, the degree of development of the gastric musculature, the condition of the adjacent organs, the loops of the small and large intestines, body habitus, sex and age.
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Miftahof, R.N. (2017). Geometry of the Surface. In: Biomechanics of the Human Stomach. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59677-8_1
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