Lesson 3B (Part 3)

Question 1

Which lobe out of the entire liver is the smallest?

Answer 1

Caudate lobe

Question 2

Why is the caudate lobe different from all the other lobes?

Answer 2

It as one arterial and venous blood flow independent of the other lobes

Question 3

What is the caudate lobe covered by?

Answer 3

Peritoneum of the lesser sac

Question 4

What is the caudate lobe between?

Answer 4

IVC and the portal vein

- squeezes through

Question 5

What is the anterior boundary of the quadrate lobe?

Answer 5

Anterior margin of the liver

Question 6

What is the posterior boundary of the liver?

Answer 6

Porta heaptis

Question 7

What is the right boundary of the quadrate lobe?

Answer 7

Gall bladder fossa

Question 8

What is the left boundary of the quadrate lobe?

Answer 8

Fossa for ligamentum teres

Question 9

Where is the quadrate lobe in between?

Answer 9

Fissure and the gallbladder

Question 10

What are liver ligaments made out of?

Answer 10

Double folds of peritoneum that reflects off of the liver and hold it in place within the abdominal cavity

Question 11

What does the falciform ligament connect?

Answer 11

The liver anteriorly to the diaphragm

Question 12

What does the ligamentum tere connect?

Answer 12

The umbilicus

Question 13

What do the right and left anterior and posterior ligament connect?

Answer 13

Liver to the diaphragm

Question 14

What do the right and left triangular ligaments connect?

Answer 14

Liver to the diaphragm

Question 15

What does the falciform ligament do?

Answer 15

Divides the right and left lobes anatomically

Question 16

What does the falciform ligament turn into as it goes more superior?

Answer 16

Right and left coronary ligament

Question 17

What is the ligamentum teres?

Answer 17

The obliterated umbilical vein

- prenatal

Question 18

What is another name for the ligamentum teres?

Answer 18

Round ligament

Question 19

Where does the ligamentum teres run?

Answer 19

In the free edge of the falciform ligament

Question 20

Where does the round ligament lie?

Answer 20

In the left fissure between the medial and lateral left lobe
- surgically

Question 21

Where is the coronary ligaments located?

Answer 21

Anteriorsuperior of the liver surface

- think coronary = heart

Question 22

What does the coronary ligament surround?

Answer 22

The bare area

Question 23

What does the coronary ligaments become after it converges posterolaterally?

Answer 23

Left and right triangular ligaments

Question 24

Where does the ligamentum venosum run?

Answer 24

From the porta hepatis of the liver and then reaches to the IVC

Question 25

What does the ligamentum venosum have a remnant of?

Answer 25

The ductus venosus of the fetal circulation

- often obliterated in adults, but the fissure remains

Question 26

Where does the ligamentum venosum lie?

Answer 26

Within the fissure on the inferior surface of the liver

Question 27

What does the ligamentum venosum separate?

Answer 27

The caudate lobe from the left lobe

Question 28

Is the caudate lobe intraperitoneal or retroperitoneal?

Answer 28

Intraperitoneal

Question 29

Is the IVC intraperitoneal or retroperitoneal?

Answer 29

Retroperitoneal

Question 30

What is the bare area surrounded by?

Answer 30

The anterior and posterior coronary ligaments