Ts. Seo et al., Radiologic anatomy of the rabbit liver on hepatic venography, arteriography, portography, and cholangiography, INV RADIOL, 36(3), 2001, pp. 186-192
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Radiology ,Nuclear Medicine & Imaging","Medical Research Diagnosis & Treatment
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES. The radiologic anatomy of rabbit liver has receiv
ed little study but is important in many experimental investigations.
METHODS. Twenty-four rabbits were studied by using hepatic venograms, aorto
grams, hepatic arteriograms, cholangiograms, and portograms,
RESULTS. In all cases, the right, middle, and left hepatic veins drained in
to the inferior vena cava just below the diaphragm, and the caudate lobe he
patic vein drained more inferiorly. The proper hepatic artery was a branch
of the common hepatic artery in 96%, The first branch of the proper hepatic
artery was the caudate lobe artery, The remaining main hepatic artery was
divided into the right and left hepatic arteries. The left hepatic artery w
as further divided into the medial and lateral segmental branches in 95%, T
he anatomy of the portal vein or bile duct was the same as the hepatic arte
ry in 100% of cases.
CONCLUSIONS. Knowledge of the normal patterns and variations of the vessels
and bile duct will be helpful for experiments of the rabbit liver in futur
e studies.