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All right, you Abside Top 99 percentilers. I hope everyone's winter holidays have

been going well so far and I hope everybody is staying safe from COVID. We're hitting up

colorectal today. This is a two-parter because colorectal is a big and important topic and

both parts are being released concurrently so make sure you're on the right part.

This is part one of the series.

Before we begin, just a reminder, to be looking out for some new AppSight video reviews that we plan on

releasing on YouTube in about two weeks.

And to compliment the new biostatistics outline that we've put in the second edition of

our Ab site review book, by the way you can buy that on Amazon if you haven't already

we'll be releasing a new ab site podcast episode on the subject so stay tuned for

that also sometime in the middle of January follow us on social media to stay up to date with our endeavors. Now let's

drill down into COLA rectal Appsight Knowledge.

All right, COA rectal Board Review. I hope everybody's studying is going well.

So let's jump right into it with some high-yield anatomy.

So Wu, when thinking about the colon,

what parts of the colon are retroperitoneal?

That's the ascending colon and the descending colon.

Correct, okay, and another highly testable subject area is the blood supply to the colon.

So let's just kind of walk through it.

Let's start with the SMA what

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