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Utility of Identification of the Falciform Ligament in the Echocardiography Laboratory
Author(s) -
Kerut Edmund Kenneth,
Dearstine Marie,
Hanawalt Curtis
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00481.x
Subject(s) - falciform ligament , identification (biology) , computer science , content (measure theory) , information retrieval , data science , radiology , medicine , mathematics , biology , ecology , mathematical analysis
Figure 1. The falciform ligament (falc. lig.: horizontal black arrow) connects the parietal peritoneum with the anterior surface of the liver. It obliquely attaches to the abdominal surface of the diaphragm (white arrow denotes attachment site). Note the close proximity of the falciform ligament with the diaphragmatic surface of the pericardium (pericardial sac: vertical black arrow). (Reproduced and modified with permission from Reference 4). of the liver denotes the junction of its right and left lobes.1,2 Following the FL from the liver superiorly reveals it to end transversely into the abdominal surface of the diaphragm.3 Anatomically, the diaphragmatic surface of the pericardium lies in close proximity to the FL (Fig. 1). In the presence of ascites noted by echocardiography, the FL is usually noted within the ascites. Ascites is visualized from both parasternal and subcostal windows,5 but the FL will be noted most often in the subcostal window only.