Liver, stomach, spleen and pancreas

Question 1

Where is the liver situated?

Answer 1

The right hypochondrium, in close contact with the diaphragm

Question 2

How many lobes are there- what are they?

Answer 2

4
Left
Right- caudate (upper)
-quadrate (lower)
*Left and right lobe separated by falciform ligament

Question 3

What are the different ducts associated with the gall bladder and pancreas?

Answer 3

Gall bladder- cystic duct, hepatic duct, common bile duct

Pancreas + common bile duct= hepatopancreatic ampulla of vater

Question 4

What is the blood supply to the liver?

Answer 4

1. Common hepatic artery

2. Hepatic portal vein

Question 5

What is the blood supply to the spleen?

Answer 5

1. Splenic artery

2. Splenic vein

Question 6

What are the main branches of the coeliac trunk?

Answer 6

1. Left gastric artery
2. Splenic artery
3. common hepatic arteries

Question 7

What supplies the pancreas?

Answer 7

1. Splenic artery (body and tail)

2. Gastroduodenal- superior pancreaticoduodenal (anterior and posterior branch)

Question 8

What does the spleen do?

Answer 8

Blood filter- remove old red blood cells

Question 9

What is the stomachs blood supply?

Answer 9

1. Right gastric
2. Left gastric
3. Right gastroepiploic
4. Left gastroepiploic

Question 10

What are the 4 sections of the stomach?

Answer 10

1. Cardia
2. Fundus
3. Body
4. Pylorus