An oncologist is reviewing a CT scan of a 74-year-old man with newly diagnosed hepatocellular carcinoma. He locates the affected quadrate lobe of the liver that:
QUADRATE LOBE: Quadrangular lobe, present behind 4b, not seen anteriorly. It lies between the gallbladder fossa and the ligamentum teres hepatis, a medial inferior segment, and is a pa of the left lobe. The quadrate lobe of the liver drains bile into the left hepatic duct and receives blood from the left hepatic aery.
Lies between the IVC and ligamentum venosum
Receives blood from the right hepatic aery
Drains bile into the left hepatic duct
Is a medial superior segment
Liver