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porta hepatis

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Noun1.porta hepatis - opening for major blood vessels to enter and leave the liver
orifice, porta, opening - an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart"


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Intraoperatively, because of severe inflammation and dense adhesions in the region of the Calot triangle and bleeding arising from the porta hepatis which obscured the operating field, the method was converted to a conventional open approach.
2) Mesenteroaxial gastric volvuli are characterized by an axis of rotation around a line that runs from the center of the greater curvature to the porta hepatis (transverse axis), with the site of obstruction being located in the pyloric antrum.
In retrospect, what was identified on the ultrasound as a gallbladder with stones and sludge was likely fat in the porta hepatis with shadowing from the surgical clips.
 
 
 
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