Volume : VI, Issue : XI, November - 2017

LOBE AND SEGMENT ANOMALIES OF THE LIVER

Dr Ashok Khade, Dr Mahendra Shah

Abstract :

 The liver and its duct system develop during the fourth week as an endodermal diverticulum.The growth of liver in the early art of development is profuse affecting both the lobes almost equally.

          Many studies have described various congenital anomalies of liver like agenesis or hypoplasia of its lobes, or absence of its segments and their                                                                                 abnormalities.

          An unusual anatomical variation of liver was found during dissection of an 58 cadaver, 19 anomalies like absence of the left lobe and quadrate  lobe. There was fusion of the left or right lobe with quadrate lobe and transverse fissure in the quadrate lobe. The present study 400 patients abdominal ultrasonography, 25 liver anomalies are reported like absence of the left and right lobe, the posterior segment of the right lobe  and the anterior segment of the left lobe.

          The variation in the present study is being reported to alert the clinicians and surgeons about the various abnormalities in appearance of liver.

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Dr ASHOK KHADE, Dr MAHENDRA SHAH, LOBE AND SEGMENT ANOMALIES OF THE LIVER, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6, ISSUE-11, NOVEMBER-2017

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