For the dissection of the abdomen, you should find:

Arteries and veins

• hepatic portal vein
• left gastric a.
• right gastric a.
• lelft and right gastroepiploic a.
• common hepatic a.
• proper hepatic a.
• gastroduodenal a.
• right hepatic a.
• left hepatic a.
• celiac trunk
• splenic a.
• short gastric a.
• cystic a.

Viscera

• stomach
  • greater curvature
  • lesser curvature
• liver - 4 lobes
• gall bladder
• duodenum - 4 parts
• jejunum
• ileum
• cecum
• vermiform appendix
• ascending, transverse, descending colon
• sigmoid colon
• rectum
• spleen

Other

• peritoneum
• greater omentum
• lesser omentum
• mesentery
• round ligament of liver
• porta hepatis
• common bile duct
• bile duct
• omental bursa
• epiploic foramen
• taenia coli
• epiploic appendices
• haustra
• the following peritoneal ligaments:
  • falciform
  • coronary
  • triangular
  • gastrophrenic
  • gastrolienal
  • transverse mesocolon
  • phrenicocolic ligament

John A. McNulty, Ph.D.

Last Updated: May 11, 2011 Created: Feb 21, 1997