Arteries & Aorta
This arterial wall contains elastin, smooth muscle, and collagen, given the Aorta it's strength
What is Tunica Media?
This vein runs between the SMA and the Aorta
What is the left renal vein?
A normal variant tongue-like projection of the right liver lobe
What is Riedal's lobe?
This vessel supplies 75-80% of the liver's blood
What is the main portal vein?
This hormone causes the GB to contract and the Sphincter of Oddi to relax
What is CCK?
This renal artery is longer because it must pass posterior to the IVC
What is the right renal artery?
This vessel should not exceed more than 2.1cm in diameter,
What is the IVC
This runs from the GB Fossa to the IVC and divides the liver into right and left lobes
What is the Main Lobar Fissure?
These two structures lie anterior to the MPV at the porta hepatis
What is the CBD and hepatic artery?
These two ducts form together to make the CHD
What is the right and left hepatic ducts?
This artery branches the common hepatic, splenic, and left gastric arteries
What is the celiac axis?
These veins drain hepatofugally into the IVC
What is the hepatic veins?
This small couinaud segment is #1
What is the caudate lobe?
This vessel carries oxygenated blood to the hepatocytes
What is the hepatic artery?
When the patient experiences maximum tenderness over the GB it is an indiction of this
What is the murphy's sign
This artery aries 1cm inferior to the celiac axis
What is the superior mesenteric artery?
These veins drain into the liver (hepatopeal)
What are portal veins?
This vein divides the liver into right and left lobes
What is the middle hepatic vein?
This structure carries bile away from the liver
What is the common bile duct?
This area is where the CBD and main pancreatic duct meet to enter the duodenum
What is the Ampulla of Vater
The abdominal aorta bifurcates at this level
These veins form the classic "bunny sign" in transverse
What are the hepatic veins?
This connective tissue surrounds the liver and encases the portal triad
What is Glisson's capsule?
These two structures come together to make this main bile duct
what is the cystic duct and common hepatic duct forming together to make the common bile duct?
This area prevents the cystic duct from collapsing
What is the spiral valves of Heister?