Hypoplastic Left Lobe of Liver with Accessory Caudate Lobe

Abstract EN

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.