Anatomy + Function
Carbohydrates
What is the major component of bile secreted by the liver
Drains the blood from the liver into the IVC
What is Hepatic Veins?
The diaphragm is superior and wraps around posteriorly to the liver
What is the relational anatomy of the diaphragm and liver?
What is the "mickey sign"?
The division of the caudate lobe from the lateral left lobe
What is the ligamentum venosum?
Carries oxygenated blood from the aorta to the liver
What is Hepatic Arteries?
The gallbladder is posterior and inferior to the liver.
What is the relational anatomy of the gallbladder and liver?
The left lobe is closely related to the undersurface of this structure
What is the diaphragm?
The 3 structures located in the Porta Hepatis
What is the MPV, CBD, and HA?
The right kidney is posterior and inferior to the liver.
What is the relational anatomy of the right kidney and liver?
Caudate Lobe
What is the midline structure on the posterior aspect that separates the right and left lobe?
Provides the liver with approx. 75% of its blood supply via intestinal organs
The pancreas is inferior to the left lobe of the liver.
What is relational anatomy of the pancreas and liver?
How many true lobes does the liver have?
3
Normal hepatic portal flow shown with color-flow Doppler imaging
What is Hepatopetal (toward the liver)?
The porta hepatis is anterior to the liver.
What is the relational anatomy of the porta hepatis and liver?