Segmental anatomy of liver by hepatic veins

Vinoth S¹, Parimelalzhagan M A Saikarthik^2*

¹Associate Professor, ²Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Madha Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA.

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REFERENCES

1. Vascular territories of arteries and hepatic venous supply Hjorstojo, 1948,1
2. In the French system (Couinaud, 1953)2there are 8 segments and the caudate lobe is considered
3. (Glisson 1659)3the nomenclature for major branching of intrahepatic portal vein and for major hepatic veins (Rex 1888).
4. In the drainage of hepatic veins observed, in 75% of specimens the left hepatic vein joining with the middle hepatic vein to empty into the inferior vena cava (H. Bismuth)4.
5. L. H. Blumgart5 in his description says that the hepatic veins drain directly from the upper part of the posterior surface of the liver
6. Peter I Williams (38th edition)6Grays anatomy states that there are three hepatic veins drain into inferior vena cava
7. No gender differences were found in the study by Sharma D Deshmukh A, Rains VK (2001)7 and they have observed that in 96 % of cases the middle and left hepatic veins form a common trunk
8. Variations in the drainage pattern of hepatic veins have been reported from time to time. These include accessory right hepatic veins, (Van Leewwen et al., 1994, De Cecchis et al, 2000)8
9. Significant accessory hepatic veins (Marcos et al., 2000)9 and accessory suprahepatic veins
10. Accessorysuprahepatic veins (Bach et al 1994-95)10.
11. Coincides with the observations of (H. Bismuth and Peter I Williams)11 there were no accessory veins observed