Lecture Notes - Liver & Gallbladder

  1. Development
    • foregut structures supplied by celiac trunk
    • pancreas from dorsal (and ventral) mesentery
    • liver and gallbladder from ventral mesentery
  2. Gallbladder and Biliary System
    • neck, body and fundus of gallbladder
    • right, left and common hepatic ducts, cystic duct, common bile duct
  3. Liver
    • omental (epiploic) foramen, hepatoduodenal and hepatogastric ligament
    • porta hepatis: triad: common hepatic duct, portal vein, hepatic artery (var)
    • falciform lig. with lig. teres, lig. venosum, coronary lig. with right and left triangular ligs., bare area
    • anatomical lobes: right, left, caudate and quadrate, different from surgical (or functional) lobes
    • hepatic veins
    • portocaval anastomoses