Lesson 6 (Part 1)

Question 1

What is the largest organ in the abdomen?

Answer 1

Liver

Question 2

What is the liver covered by?

Answer 2

Glisson’s capsule

Question 3

Glisson’s capsule

Answer 3

A thin connective later

- acts as protection

Question 4

Where is the Glisson’s capsule the thickest?

Answer 4

When it is around the IVC

Question 5

Is the liver intra or retroperitoneal?

Answer 5

Intraperitoneal

- except for the bare area

Question 6

Where is the liver located?

Answer 6

Right hypochondria region

- extends to the epigastric and the left hypochondria region

Question 7

What is the superior border of the liver?

Answer 7

The diaphragm

Question 8

What is the posterior border of the liver?

Answer 8

Lumbar region

Question 9

What is the anterior border of the liver? (2)

Answer 9

1. Abdominal walls

2. Ribs

Question 10

What is the inferior border of the liver?

Answer 10

Organs

Question 11

What organs are part of the inferior border for the liver? (6)

Answer 11

1. Pancreas
2. Right kindey
3. Duodenum
4. Colon
5. Gallbladder
6. Lesser curvature of the stomach

Question 12

Where is the pancreas compared to the duodenum?

Answer 12

The head sits in the C of the duodenum and extends superiorly to the left

Question 13

What are the 2 main surfaces of the liver?

Answer 13

1. Anterior

2. Posterior

Question 14

What is another word for the anterior surface?

Answer 14

Parietal

Question 15

What is another word for the posterior surface of the liver? (2)

Answer 15

1. Inferior

2. Visceral

Question 16

Subphrenic recess

Answer 16

Open space between the liver and the diaphragm

Question 17

What is it important to know where the liver is? (3)

Answer 17

1. Localize an abnormality
2. Change in appearance
3. Affects of patient management

Question 18

What 3 structures do we use to split up the liver into different parts?

Answer 18

1. Fissures
2. Ligaments
3. Vasculature

Question 19

Fissures

Answer 19

Is a groove, natural division, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear in various parts of the body

Question 20

What are 3 examples of fissures in the liver?

Answer 20

1. Main lobar fissure
2. Left intersegmental fissure
3. Right intersegmental fissure

Question 21

What does the main lobar fissure divide?

Answer 21

The left and right lobe of the liver

Question 22

What are 7 ligaments in the liver?

Answer 22

1. Falciform ligament
2. Ligamentum teres
   - round ligament
3. Ligamentum venosum ligament
4. Hepatoduodenal ligament
5. Gastrophrenic ligament
6. Coronary ligament
7. Right and left triangular ligaments

Question 23

What does the gastrohepatic ligament do?

Answer 23

Connect the liver to the lesser stomach

Question 24

What are ligaments?

Answer 24

Fibrous bands of tissue

Question 25

Where is the hepatoduodenal ligament?

Answer 25

Surrounds the common bile duct, portal vein and proper hepatic
- protective layer

Question 26

What does the hepatoduodenal ligament connect?

Answer 26

The liver to the duodenum

Question 27

What does the falciform ligament divide?

Answer 27

Left and right lobe

Question 28

What does the round ligament divide?

Answer 28

The medial and lateral portion of the left lobe

Question 29

What does the ligamentum venosum divide?

Answer 29

The caudate lobe from the left lobe

Question 30

What does the coronary ligament connect?

Answer 30

Superior surface of the liver to the inferior surface of the diaphragm

Question 31

What does the left and right triangular ligament attach?

Answer 31

The liver to the body wall

Question 32

Is the bare area of the liver intra or retroperitoneal?

Answer 32

Retroperitoneal