Step 2 - Dissection of the Stomach, Spleen, Liver and Intestines
If you lift the stomach superiorly,
you can mobilize the spleen and better demonstrate its relationships to
other organs such as the pancreas and left kidney as shown in this
dissection. Remember that that "the tail of
the pancreas points to the spleen". Appreciate the degree to which
the splenic artery is coiled.
Cut the coronary ligaments of the liver and the hepatic veins to free the organ and
study its surfaces. NOTE: Don't cut the structures entering the porta hepatis.
Once again,
demonstrate the right lobe and left lobe,
caudate lobe,
quadrate lobe and the gall bladder as seen on this liver.
Remove a piece of the liver to view the internal structure
of the organ.
