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On the specimen a black circle is drawn around three tubular structures. This circle represents a ligament that contains these three tubular structures. Which ligament is intended?
An imaginary line can be drawn across the liver from inferior vena cava to the fundus of the gallbladder, the so-called Cantlie line. This line is drawn as a dashed line on the photo. Cantlie's line divides the liver according to left and right supply areas of the portal vein, hepatica and bile ducts within the liver, thus dividing the liver into left and right functional (= physiological, = surgical) hepatic halves. In terms of liver halves, what can be said about the part of the liver that is indicated with a green star?
