American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 159, 497-501, Copyright © 1992 by American Roentgen Ray Society
Left-lobe hepatic transplants: spectrum of normal imaging findings
KH Caron, JL Strife, DS Babcock and FC Ryckman
Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229.
The limited availability of suitable size-matched donor whole organs has
been a major cause of morbidity and mortality in infants and children
requiring liver transplantation. Techniques for transplanting segments of
the liver have successfully addressed this problem. The surgical anatomy of
the left hepatic lobe transplant is unique in three primary respects: the
cut edge, the presence of an enteric Roux loop for biliary drainage, and
the alteration in the position and number of hepatic vessels. The spectrum
of normal imaging findings in 17 left- lobe allografts is illustrated.
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