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hepatic vein
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hepatic vein [he′padĀ·ik ′vān]
(anatomy)
A blood vessel that drains blood from the liver into the inferior vena cava.


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5 ml physiological serum 60 min prior to surgical operation and was subjected only to laparotomy in order to make hepatic veins and bile duct clearly visible.
3,5) This was especially true in the currently reported case in which impaired cardiac filling with dilatation of the inferior and superior vena cava and early reflux of contrast medium into dilated inferior vena cava and hepatic veins were seen but the pericardial thickness was within the upper limits of normal.
Abdominal ultrasonography demonstrated no additional abnormalities such as polysplenia and other visceral levoisomerism (liver, spleen and stomach) except hepatic veins drained directly into the right atrium.
 
 
 
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