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The minor hepatic veins: Anatomy and classification
Author(s) -
Mehran Reza,
Schneider Remi,
Franchebois Pierre
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
clinical anatomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1098-2353
pISSN - 0897-3806
DOI - 10.1002/1098-2353(2000)13:6<416::aid-ca4>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - hepatic veins , medicine , anatomy , caudate lobe , vein , lobe , minor (academic) , hepatectomy , surgery , humanities , resection , philosophy
A detailed description of the distribution and drainage pattern of the minor hepatic veins is presented in this paper. A classification based on the segmentation of the liver divides these veins into four main groups: 1) veins of Segment I which includes the veins of the caudate lobe and the veins of the caudate process; 2) veins of Segment VI; 3) veins of Segment VII; and 4) veins of Segment IX. A knowledge of the anatomy of the minor hepatic veins becomes more clinically valuable as the number of complex dissections of the retrohepatic areas, hepatectomies, and hepatic transplantations grow. Clin. Anat. 13:416–421, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.