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Caudate lobe

• Spiegelian lobe, paracaval portion and caudate process

• Superior extent – hepatic vein

• Vascular supply

• From both right and left hepatic arteries (and portal veins)

• Bile duct

• Drains into both right and left hepatic ducts

• Hepatic vein

• Drained by several short caudate veins into the IVC directly