Accessory Organs

Question 1

Is liver intra or retroperitoneum

Answer 1

Intra, except at the bare area, gallbladder fossa and porta hepatitis

Question 2

Function of the falciform ligament

Answer 2

Attahces liver to anterior abdominal wall

Question 3

What ligaments come from the lesser omentum

Answer 3

Hepato gastric and hepatoduodenal

Question 4

Where does the gastrocolic ligament arise from

Answer 4

Greater omentum

Question 5

What passes through porta hepatitis

Answer 5

Left and right branches of hepatic artery proper enter , ;eft and right hepatic ducts exit, portal vein also passes through

Question 6

What nerves reach the liver

Answer 6

AUutomatic nerves from celiac plexus
Symp and parasymp

Question 7

Which ligament do the vessels from the artery pass through

Answer 7

HD ligament

Question 8

What makes up the portal vein

Answer 8

SMV and splenic vein

Question 9

Where does sympathetic and parasympathetic imput for coeliac plexus get derived from

Answer 9

Thoracic splanchic nerves
Vagus nerve

Question 10

Which part of the small intestine does the bile duct drain into

Answer 10

second part of duodenum (major duodenal papilla)

Question 11

What drains blood from the:
Liver
Spleen
Gallbladder
Pancreas

Answer 11

IVC
Splenic vein
Cystic vein
Tributaries of splenic vein

Question 12

What are the cystic vein and arteries a tributary of respectively??

Answer 12

Portal vein, branch of right hepatic artery

Question 13

Reflection of peritoneum that runs between the diaphragm and liver that limits:
Right subphrenic space
Hepatorenalspace

Answer 13

Anterior and posterior coronary ligament

Question 14

What is the bare area surrounded by

Answer 14

COronary ligaments

Question 15

What forms the roof of the epiploic foramen

Answer 15

HD ligament

Question 16

What is the hepato-oesophageal ligament part of

Answer 16

Lesse omentum

Question 17

What is the splenorenal ligament part of

Answer 17

Greater ommentum

Question 18

Which regions of the abdomen does the pancreas lie

Answer 18

Epigastric and left hypochondriac

Question 19

x

Answer 19

Epigastric and left hypochondriac

Question 20

What vessel crosses the uncinate process

Answer 20

SMV

Question 21

What drains at the minor dudodenal papilla

Answer 21

Accessory pancreatic duct ( if present)

Question 22

Where does the gastroduodenal artery branch off

Answer 22

Common hepatic artery

Question 23

What are the 4 splenic ligaments
Which one contains vessels

Answer 23

Splenorenal - branches of splenic vessels , contains tail of pancreas
Gastrosplenic - short gastric and left gastro-omental vessels

Splenocolic
Phernicosplenic

Question 24

What cells do the islets of langerhans contain

Answer 24

A, B and D cells- glucacon, insulin, gastrin/somatostatin

Question 25

What cells are found in white pulp

Answer 25

T and B lymphocytes

Question 26

What type of epithelial cells exist in gallbaldde

Answer 26

SIngle layer of columnar

Question 27

What adaptation on epithelium of gallbladder

Answer 27

Rugae lining the surface to flatten as gall bladder fills, allowing it to increase in SA

Question 28

What ligaments are part of greater omentum

Answer 28

Splenorenal and gastrocolic

Question 29

What is the cystic artery a branch of

Answer 29

RHA

Question 30

Which level is the transpyloric plane and what lies there

Answer 30

L1, SMA