liver anatomy

main lobar fissure: plane connecting GB bed and IVC (Cantlie line)
- middle hepatic vein runs here
- divides RIGHT and LEFT lobes
right hepatic vein: divides ANTERIOR and POSTERIOR segments of the
- right lobe
falciform ligament: divides MEDIAL and LATERAL segments of the left lobe
- contains ligmentum teres
caudate lobe: bounded posteriorly by fossa of IVC and anteriorly by the
- fissure of the ligamentum venosum

Brian Funaki, MD - 6 February 1995
Last updated: 1 October 2013