Author/Editor     Ravnik, Dean
Title     Embryology as the basis for liver terminology
Type     članek
Source     In: Hepatobiliary school. Book of lectures and abstracts of the 6th postgraduate course in hepatology - postgraduate course in HPB surgery; 1998 Jun 20-24; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: University medical center,
Publication year     1998
Volume     str. 135-41
Language     eng
Abstract     Basic facts of liver embryology are described. The development of a single hepatic bud and later two hepatic buds with ingrowing vitelline veins is discussed and the development of the the umbilical part of the left main portal branch explained. The embryological reasons for sectorial division of the right and especially the left liver are noted as well as some of the reasons for arterial and biliary differences in the left liver lobe.
Descriptors     LIVER
BILE DUCTS