Hypoplastic Left Lobe of Liver with Accessory Caudate Lobe

Hypoplastic Left Lobe of Liver with Accessory Caudate Lobe

During routine dissection, a liver from a cadaver of a female aged 50 years was observed to have hypoplastic left lobe, and on posterior surface an accessory caudate lobe was present to the left of main caudate lobe. It was separated by well-defined fissure from caudate lobe. The fissure for ligamentum venosum was present to the left of accessory caudate lobe. Porta hepatis was present below th...

Hypoplastic Left Lobe of the Liver

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Dr.Veena Vidya Shankar, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore 560054, Karnataka, India. Contact No.: Mobile: +919980308735 E-Mail: [email protected] Congenital abnormalities of the liver are very rare. Knowledge of such anomalies will be of great help to the clinicians, surgeons, radiologists and embryologists. ...

Caudate lobe liver abscess: early surgical drainage

The Indian sub continent has a high incidence of both pyogenic and amebic liver abscesses.1 several factors have been implicated for the same but the most significant is the prevalence of poor hygiene, lack of proper sanitation and low socioeconomic status. The advanced imaging has helped in accurate and early diagnosis of these but still pyogenic liver abscesses carry up to 19% risk of mortali...

Intrathoracic accessory lobe of the liver.

Left lobe amoebic liver abscess.

For reasons which are not quite clear amoebic liver abscesses in the left lobe are relatively uncommon. On account of the lesser bulk of the left lobe, and the potentially greater space under the left hemidiaphragm, expansive lesions within it remain less obtrusive than corresponding lesions in the right. Sixteen such cases are analysed and five distinct modes of clinical presentation have been...