The Common Vein

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Life Depends on the Liver
Note this title has 2 meanings
This has and will always be true – from the dawn of man through ancient times when the liver was used by the Etruscans as a divine agent to predict the future – (hepatomancy – middle image) – to modern times of liver transplantation
Ashley Davidoff MD  TheCommonVein.net  Art of Radiology

 

Hepatomancy

Sacrificed sheep’s liver was used by Etruscan priests to predict the future
The center image include a clay model used to train the Etruscan priests and the second image explains the segments

The liver was divided into 40 segments with 24 gods named in the inscriptions. Piacenza, 120-80 BCE.

 

 

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Single Kidney Tree
An MRA of the abdomen with a single kidney is rendered to create a tree like structure containing the kidney, liver. spleen and abdominal aorta.
The original image is on the left and the rendereed image on the right.
Ashley Davidoff MD TheCommonVein.net
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Bunny Ears in the Liver
Ultrasound of the hepatic veins of the liver
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Shark Treat in the Porta
The cirrhotic liver has a small right lobe and a large left lobe as a compensation for reduced size and function of the right lobe. This gives the left lobe a snout like shape in contrast to the small triangular right lobe. This liver thus takes on a shark head like appearance and the structures (arteries vein nerves and ligaments entering the porta of the liver look like shark feed.
Derived from a transverse view of an abdominal CT scan
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Normal and Hepatocellular Carcinoma
by Ashley Davidoff MD TheCommonVein.net