Liver - Part 1 Flashcards
Budd-Chiari syndrome
Thrombosis of the main hepatic veins
What is the most common benign liver neoplasm?
Cavernous hemangioma
What are the functions of the liver? (6)
- Breaks down red blood cells, producing bile pigments
- Secretes bile into the duodenum through the bile ducts
- Converts excess amino acids into urea and glucose
- Manufactures glycogen from glucose and stores it for future use
- Releases glycogen as glucose
- Manufactures heparin
What is the largest solid organ in the body?
The liver
What is the liver covered by?
Glisson’s capsule
What divides the medial and lateral segments of the left lobe? (2)
- Left hepatic veins
2. Ligamentum of teres
What separates the left lobe of the liver to the caudate lobe?
Ligamentum of venosum
What separates the right and left lobe of the liver? (superiorly and inferiorly)
Superiorly = middle hepatic vein Inferiorly = main lobar fissure
What separates the anterior and posterior segments of the right lobe of the liver?
Right hepatic veins
What are the 3 posterior fossae of the right lobe of the liver?
- GB
- Porta hepatis
- IVC
What are the 7 ligaments of the liver?
- Coronary
- Falciform
- Gastrohepatic
- Hepatoduodenal
- Ligamentum teres
- Triangular
- Ligamentum venosum
What helps to make up the coronary ligament?
The right and left triangular ligaments
What does the coronary ligament connect?
The posterior liver to the diaphragm
What does the falciform ligament attach?
The liver to the anterior abdominal wall
Where does the falciform ligament extend from?
The diaphragm to the umbilicus
