Abdomen Anatomy

Question 1

Where do most of the main vessels and ducts leave the liver?

Answer 1

The porta hepatis

Question 2

Describe where the

Answer 2

Question 3

For the round ligament of the liver, give:

a) Its other name
b) What it is
c) Where it is

Answer 3

a) Round ligament of the liver = Ligamentum teres
b) It was the umbilical vein
c) Its found in the free edge of the falciform ligament

Question 4

Describe the bare area of the liver

Answer 4

The only part of the liver which isnt covered by peritoneum.

Its bounded by the two coronary ligaments and the IVC on the diaphragmatic surface

Attached to the diaphragm by areolar tissue - site where infection can spread from the abdomen to the thoracic cavity

Question 5

Where is the visceral surface of the liver?

Answer 5

The inferior surface

Its uneven and concave due to impressions of other organs

Question 6

On the right lobe what are the 2 impressions called and made by?

Answer 6

Collic impression from the hepatic flexture

Renal impression from part of the right kidney and the right supra renal gland (deeper and more superior)

Question 7

Where is the gastric impression on the liver?

Answer 7

Inferior surface of the left lobe

Question 8

Give the order of the vein, artery and duct in the portal hepatis from anterior to posterior

Answer 8

DAV

Front - duct, artery, vein - back

Question 9

Decribe the line which seperates the functional left and right lobes of the liver

Answer 9

Live between the fossa of the gallbladder and the IVC

(makes the quadrate lobe part of the functional left lob)

Left functional lobe is bigger and supplied by the left branches of the vessels

Question 10

Behind which part of the pancreas is the hepatic portal vein formed?

Answer 10

Behind the neck of the pancreas

In the transpyloric plane

Question 11

Which ligaments attach the spleen to:

a) The stomach
b) The liver

Answer 11

a) Gastrosplenic ligament
b) Lienorenal ligament

Question 12

Give the branches off the abdominal aorta and the vertebral level until the bifurication at L4 into the left and right common iliac arteries

Answer 12

T12 - (Aortic hiatus where it enters from the diaphragm)

T12 - Inferior phrenic & celiac artery

L1 - SMA + Renal

L2 - Gondal

L3 - IMA

L4 - Bifurication to the common iliac arteries

Question 13

Give the 3 branches which the celiac trucnk

Answer 13

Hepatic artery

Splenic artery

Gastric artery

Question 14

What 2 veins form the hepatic portal vein?

Answer 14

The superior mesenteric and the splenic veins