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Historical anatomy of hepatic segmentation: about 250 livers corrosions by Rapp (1953) and Couinaud (1953) in the Conservatory of Anatomy in Montpellier

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Two “surgeons-anatomists” Rapp in Montpellier and Couinaud in Paris at the same period (1953) given precise anatomy useful for the hepatic surgery and to the tremendous upheavals of radiological investigations. Actually, the fundamental anatomy of liver is classic with 8 segments with autonomous territories having a vascular afferent pedicle and a venous and biliary efferent drainage. These autonomous territories supported the surgical approach of the liver with the possibility of resecting a hepatic territory in a carcinological perspective well saving quite vascularized parenchyma. It will be in the future history about liver morphology to specify the contribution of these two “surgeons-anatomists”. Actually it will be possible to look in the “Conservatory of Anatomy” in Montpellier these original livers corrosions.

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  2. Laboratory of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine-Pharmacy, Rouen Normandy University, 22 Boulevard Gambetta, 76183, Rouen, France

    Fabrice Duparc

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Bonnel, F., Duparc, F. Historical anatomy of hepatic segmentation: about 250 livers corrosions by Rapp (1953) and Couinaud (1953) in the Conservatory of Anatomy in Montpellier. Surg Radiol Anat 42, 1407–1420 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-020-02596-3

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