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What is the surgical consern if a surgeon has to open epiploic foramen ?

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3 main things could be severed: Hepatic artery, Portal vein, and the Common Bile Duct. These 3 structures pass between the 2 layers of Foramen of Winslow (epiploic foramen)

  #3

thanks....therefore main concern for the surgeon is hepatic artery

also IVC comes in its posterior relation







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