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Surgical anatomy of liver segment IV

Anatomie chirurgicale du segment IV du foie

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Classical studies of the anatomy of the liver have led to the wide practice of hepatic resection. The difficulties encountered in the course of either right hepatectomy enlarged to include segment IV or left hepatectomy are mainly related to the vascular relations of this liver segment. This paper presents a summary of data from the literature concerning segment IV of the liver, as well as the results of experimental study via an original technique of resin injection of the portal vasculature and biliary drainage of this segment. The relations of the portal pedicles of segment IV with the bile duct originating from the confluence of the ducts draining segments II and III and with the left paramedian branch of the portal vein are described. Knowledge of these anatomical relations is essential to the proper execution of major hepatectomy.

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Les travaux magistraux consacrés à l'anatomie du foie ont permis la diffusion de la chirurgie d'exérèse hépatique. Les difficultés rencontrées dans la réalisation d'une hépatectomie droite élargie d'une segmentectomie IV, ou d'une hépatectomie gauche proviennent surtout des rapports vasculaires du segment IV. Nous avons donc tenté une synthèse des données de la littérature sur ce segment puis nous avons réalisé par une technique originale des injections vasculaires et biliaires centrées sur cette partie du foie. Nous avons ainsi précisé les rapports des pédicules portaux du segment IV avec le canal biliaire né de la confluence des canaux des segments II et III, et avec la branche portale paramédiane gauche, éléments essentiels pour la réalisation d'une hépatectomie majeure.

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Sales, J.P., Hannoun, L., Sichez, J.P. et al. Surgical anatomy of liver segment IV. Anat. Clin 6, 295–304 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01654462

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