Tags: Anatomical Structure.
In the male the peritoneum encircles the sigmoid colon from which it is reflected to the posterior wall of the pelvis as a fold the sigmoid mesocolon. It then leaves the sides and finally the front of the rectum and is continued on to the upper ends of the seminal vesicles and the bladder; on either side of the rectum it forms a fossa the pararectal fossa which varies in size with the distension of the rectum.
