Left medial lobe of liver

Lobus hepatis sinister medialis

Definition

Antoine Micheau

The left medial hepatic lobe of liver (left medial hepatic lobe) is separate from the left lateral lobe of liver by a fissure that begins 1.5 to 3 cm form the most caudoventral portion of the organ that extends to the porta.

The left medial hepatic lobe of liver is separate from the quadrate lobe and right medial lobe by a deep fissure, the fissure for round ligament (this fissure contains the round ligament of the liver in the free edge of the falciform ligament) , nearly midsagittal in location, which extends to the porta an nearly to the oesophageal notch.

References

Miller's Anatomy of the Dog, 4th Edition - Evans & de Lahunta- Elsevier

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