APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -The ileum is the final portion of the small intestine, measuring around 3 meters, and ends at the cecum. It absorbs any final nutrients, with major absorptive products being vitamin B12 and bile acids.

Detailed explanation-2: -The last part of the small intestine. It connects to the cecum (first part of the large intestine). The ileum helps to further digest food coming from the stomach and other parts of the small intestine.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ileum terminates at the cecocolic junction of the large intestine forming the ileal orifice.

Detailed explanation-4: -Reading time: 7 minutes. Ileum. Synonyms: Intestinum ileum. The small intestine is composed of three distinct parts, the last one being the ileum. At the distal end, the ileum is separated from the large intestine, into which it opens, by the ileocecal valve.

Detailed explanation-5: -Crohn’s in the ileum (the last part of the small intestine) may be called ileal or sometimes ‘terminal ileal’ Crohn’s – because it is affecting the terminus or end of the ileum.