Atnomy Of The Liver, Bilary Tree And Panreas Flashcards
What are the two surfaces of the liver?
the diaprhrmatatic and the visercal surfaces
Whqat are the features of the diaphramtic surfaces of the liver?
Smooth and convex fits underneath the diaphy, is the anterior superior surface of the liver
What are the features of the visercal surface of the liver?
Lies in contact wiht the oephagus and the kindey, and covers the posterior inferior surface of the kidney
What is the falciform ligament?
It connects the anterior surface of the liver to the aneterior abdominal wall, and there is a free edge that contains a ligamentum teres that is a remant of the umbilical vein
What are the cornary ligmaents of the liver?
Are inovoled in connecting the superior surface of the liver to the diaphram
What are the traiangular ligaments of the liver?
Connect the superir aspect of the liver to the diaphrma
What are the ligaments contained within the lesser omentum?
The hepatodudoenal ligmanet and the hepatogastric ligmaent
What are the locational features of the liver?
Is locates in the right hypochondrium and epigastric areas, and during development is formed within part of the vental mesentary that suspends the foregut from the abdominal wall
What are the four lobes of the liver?
Right, left, caudate and quadrate
What are some of the structures that pass through the porta hepatitis?
Nearly all the vasculature and ducts pass through this surface, includes the hepatic atery proper and the hepatic portal veins (the 3 hepatic veins pass directly into the inferior vena cava)
What veins converge to make the heaptic protal vein?
Union of the splenic vein and the superior mesenteric vein, and other tributaries include the right and left gastric veins, cyctix veins, the paraumbilical
What are some of the structural features of the biliary tree?
Left and right hepatic ducts emlagate to form the common hepatic duct, which is drained by the cytstic ducts as it descends
What is the blood supply of the pancreas?
Supplied by the pancreatic braches of the splenic veins, and the head is additionly supplied by the superior and inferir pancreaduodenla veins
What is the features of the blood supply within the spllenn?
Recieves aterial supply from the spelnic atery that is formed by the coelic truck
