Landmark · Visceral systems
Left part of liver
Pars sinistra hepatis
- System
- Visceral systems
- Regions
- Trunk, Abdomen
- Landmark on
- Liver
DescriptionUnreviewed
Located left to the main hepatic fissure (& the falciform ligament), the left part of liver is divided into two parts:
1-the left lateral division of liver
The left posterior lateral segment of liver (II) and the left anterior lateral segment of liver (III). (II superior to the portal venous supply and III inferior).
2-and the left medial division of liver
The left medial segment of liver (IV) lies lateral to the falciform ligament and is subdivided into IVa (superior) and IVb (inferior)
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Names
- Latin
- Pars sinistra hepatis
- English
- Left part of liver
- French
- Partie gauche du foie
- Spanish
- Porción izquierda del hígado
- Portuguese
- Parte esquerda do fígado
In the same group
- Anterior lateral segment of liver (VI)
- Anterior medial segment of liver (V)
- Left anterior lateral segment of liver (III)
- Left medial segment of liver (IV)
- Left posterior lateral segment of liver (II)
- Posterior lateral segment of liver (VII)
- Posterior medial segment of liver (VIII)
- Posterior segment of liver (I)