A peculiar liver with surgically and radiologically important variations: a case report

A peculiar liver was found in an adult male cadaver during a dissection class for undergraduate medical students. Th e quadrate lobe and fi ssure for the ligamentum teres were totally absent. Th us, the cystic notch on the inferior border was very broad and deep, and the fundus and body of the gall bladder popped out through this notch. Th e cystic duct terminated into the right hepatic duct at the porta hepatis instead of terminating into the common hepatic duct. Awareness of variations of the lobes and fi ssures may minimize a misdiagnosis of liver problems. Th e aim of the current study was to alert radiologists and surgeons about possible variations in the external appearance and anomalies of the lobes and fi ssures of the liver.