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Venous segmentation of the spleen

Segmentation veineuse de la rate

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The authors conducted a study of the human splenic venous system by corrosion cast. The existence of two main venous territories or lobes separated by an avascular plane is confirmed. Smaller territories or segments, drained systematically by segmentary veins, and also separated by avascular planes, are defined in them. Their number ranged from four to eight, the mean being five segments. Four different ways of confluence of intrasplenic vessels forming the splenic vein are described.

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Les auteurs ont mené une étude du système veineux de la rate chez l'homme par injection-corrosion. Ils confirment l'existence de deux principaux territories ou lobes séparés par un plan avasculaire ; des territories plus petits, ou segments, drainés de manière systématique par des veines segmentaires, et également séparés par des plans avasculaires sont définis à l'intérieur de ces lobes. Leur nombre se situe entre quatre et huit, la moyenne est de cinq segments. Quatre modes différents de confluence des vaisseaux intra-spléniques à l'origine de la v. splénique sont décrits.

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    L Gómez Pellico, J Labrador Vallverdu & FJ Fernández Camacho

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Gómez Pellico, L., Labrador Vallverdu, J. & Fernández Camacho, F. Venous segmentation of the spleen. Surg Radiol Anat 16, 157–164 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01627589

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