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porta hepatis

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porta /por·ta/ (por´tah) pl. por´tae   [L.] portal; an entrance, especially the site of entrance to an organ of the blood vessels and other structures supplying or draining it.
porta he´patis  the transverse fissure on the visceral surface of the liver where the portal vein and hepatic artery enter and the hepatic ducts leave.
porta hepatis.
porta [por´tah] (L.)
an entrance or gateway, especially the site where blood vessels and other supplying or draining structures enter an organ; called also portal.
porta he´patis the transverse fissure on the visceral surface of the liver, where the portal vein and hepatic artery enter and the hepatic ducts leave. Called also portal fissure and transverse fissure.
porta
pl. portae [L.] an entrance or gateway, especially the site where blood vessels and other supplying or draining structures enter an organ.
porta hepatis
the fissure on the visceral surface of the liver, where the portal vein and hepatic artery enter and the bile duct leaves. Called also portal fissure and transverse fissure.
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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.
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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.
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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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