Liver and Pancreas

Question 1

• The largest single organ in the canine body.
• it has both an exocrine (bile production) and endocrine (production of substances needed for metabolic processes) functions

Answer 1

The Liver

Question 2

Lobes of the liver

Answer 2

• left hepatic lobe –
• right hepatic lobe –
• quadrate lobe
• caudate lobe –

Question 3

*Lobes of the liver

left hepatic lobe – divided into:

Answer 3

– left lateral lobe
– left medial lobe

Question 4

*Lobes of the liver

right hepatic lobe – divided into:

Answer 4

– right lateral lobe
– right medial lobe

Question 5

*Lobes of the liver

caudate lobe – divided into:

Answer 5

– papillary process
– caudate process

Question 6

• Supplied with blood via the portal vein and hepatic artery.
• Blood carried away by the hepatic vein.

Answer 6

Gross Anatomy

Question 7

• The _____ is innervated by the vagus nerves and sympathetic fibers from the celiac plexus.

Answer 7

liver

Question 8

– Muscular bag for the storage, concentration, acidification and delivery of bile to small intestine

Answer 8

Gall Bladder

Question 9

Functions of the Liver (5)

Answer 9

– Storage of Nutrients
– Breakdown of erythrocytes
– Bile Secretion
– Synthesis of plasma Proteins
– Synthesis of cholesterol

Question 10

*Surfaces of the Liver

that part of the liver which is in contact with the diaphragm

Answer 10

diaphragmatic surface

Question 11

*Surfaces of the Liver

that part in contact with the stomach, duodenum, pancreas and right kidney

Answer 11

visceral surface

Question 12

Liver impressions (3)

Answer 12

• gastric impression
• duodenal impression
• renal impression

Question 13

is a lobulated, thin, elongated organ that is divided into three parts: the right lobe, the left lobe, and the body.

Answer 13

Pancreas

Question 14

The normal canine pancreas is _____ thick with a pancreatic ductal diameter of 0.6 mm.

Answer 14

6 to 8 mm

Question 15

The pancreas has both _______ (enzymes) and ________ (insulin and glucagon) functions

Answer 15

exorine
endocrine

Question 16

It is one of the most difficult structures to identify in the normal patient due to the similar echogenicity and echostructure of the pancreas and the adjacent mesentery and fat.

Answer 16

Pancreas

Question 17

*Blood Supply of the Pancreas

– pancreatic branches of cranial and caudal pancreaticoduodenal arteries

Answer 17

Right lobe

Question 18

*Blood Supply of the Pancreas

– pancreatic branch of splenic artery
– Small branches of common hepatic artery
– Branches from gastroduodenal artery
– Pancreatic branches directly from the celiac artery

Answer 18

Left lobe

Question 19

*Blood Supply of the Pancreas

Lymphatics from the pancreas drain into the _______ ___ ___ when present and to the hepatic, splenic and mesenteric lymph node

Answer 19

duodenal lymph node

Question 20

*Nerve Supply

This comes from the _______ ____ from the celiac and cranial mesenteric plexus

Answer 20

sympathetic fibers