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Video Summary of Abdominal quadrants, regions and planes
The abdomen surface anatomy is divided into quadrants, regions, and planes, which help to localize the anatomical positions of various abdominal organs. There are four quadrants, which are the right upper quadrant, the left upper quadrant, the right lower quadrant, and the left lower quadrant. The regions are nine. We have the epigastric region, the right and left hypochondriac regions, the umbilical region, the right and left lumbar regions, the hypogastric region, and the right and left iliac fossae. There are two planes. One is the transverse plane, which is a horizontal plane that divides the body into right and left halves; and the second one is the sagittal plane, which is a vertical plane that divides the body into front and back halves.