title: Connection types between portal vein and portal sinus during foetal life.
abstract: We examined 27 resin casts of foetal liver veins and found three types of connection between portal vein and portal sinus. The most frequent connection was endo-lateral (66.7%), when the end of the portal vein joins with the lateral wall of the portal sinus. The next type was latero-lateral (14.8%). In this type, the lateral walls of the portal sinus and the portal vein join together. The last type was latero-lateral through short vessel (18.5%), which resembles the previous one, but there is short vessel between the lateral walls of the portal vein and sinus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, University Medical School, Warsaw, Poland. aczub@embryo.ib.amwaw.du.pl
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Czubalski
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aleksandrowicz
mesh_terms: D016319:Corrosion Casting; D005333:Fetus; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000196:embryology; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000196:embryology*; D014471:Umbilical Veins / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000196:embryology*