Abstract
During routine dissection, a liver from a cadaver of a female aged 50 years was observed to have hypoplastic left lobe, and on posterior surface an accessory caudate lobe was present to the left of main caudate lobe. It was separated by well-defined fissure from caudate lobe. The fissure for ligamentum venosum was present to the left of accessory caudate lobe. Porta hepatis was present below the new lobe. Prominent papillary process continued with caudate process which in turn is fused with right lobe of the liver. These developmental anomalies of liver may cause confusion during procedures like biopsy, transplantation, and lobectomies. This knowledge may be of immense use to clinicians for the diagnosis and management of hepatic diseases, morphologists and anatomists for new variant, and to embryologists for new developmental defect.
Highlights
The liver is the largest wedge-shaped gland in the human body
It is important to keep in mind the anomalies of liver during the preoperative diagnosis because it will be helpful for the surgeon in planning biliary surgery or a portosystemic anastomosis [1]
These developmental anomalies of liver may cause confusion to clinician during procedures like biopsy, transplantation, and lobectomies. Finding of this new variant under unique configuration of this lobe assumes more importance to anatomists including morphologists, and its knowledge may be of immense use to clinicians in the diagnosis and management of hepatic diseases and to embryologists for new developmental defect
Summary
A liver from a cadaver of a female aged 50 years was observed to have hypoplastic left lobe, and on posterior surface an accessory caudate lobe was present to the left of main caudate lobe. It was separated by well-defined fissure from caudate lobe. Prominent papillary process continued with caudate process which in turn is fused with right lobe of the liver. These developmental anomalies of liver may cause confusion during procedures like biopsy, transplantation, and lobectomies. This knowledge may be of immense use to clinicians for the diagnosis and management of hepatic diseases, morphologists and anatomists for new variant, and to embryologists for new developmental defect
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