Duodenorenal ligament

The duodenorenal ligament is a fold of peritoneum that occasionally crosses from the duodenum at the termination of the hepatoduodenal ligament to the right kidney.^[1] The duodenorenal ligament is an anatomic variation of the peritoneum, and is not commonly present.

Duodenorenal ligament
Details
From	Duodenum
To	kidney
Identifiers
Latin	ligamentum duodenorenale
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

It is one of many factors that may hold the kidney in place when standing.^[2] It was believed, at least in the 1920s, that tension in this ligament might explain how renal diseases can cause gastrointestinal symptoms.^[3]