liver anatomy

• main lobar fissure: plane connecting GB bed and IVC (Cantlie line)
  • middle hepatic vein runs here
  • divides RIGHT and LEFT lobes
• right hepatic vein: divides ANTERIOR and POSTERIOR segments of the
  • right lobe
• falciform ligament: divides MEDIAL and LATERAL segments of the left lobe
  • contains ligmentum teres
• caudate lobe: bounded posteriorly by fossa of IVC and anteriorly by the
  • fissure of the ligamentum venosum

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18