Question 101 · LEK · Organ injuries

A female patient was urgently operated because of the bleeding from a liver rupture and during the surgery the Pringle maneuver was performed. This maneuver is associated with a compression of:

1) splenic artery;
2) proper hepatic artery;
3) right gastric artery;
4) splenic vein;
5) proper hepatic vein;
6) portal vein;
7) common bile duct.
The correct answer is:
  1. A. 1,2,3.
  2. B. 1,4.
  3. C. 2,5,6,7.
  4. D. 2,5,7.
  5. E. 2,6,7.
Hint

Identify the structures running in the free edge of the hepatoduodenal ligament.

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