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Portal fissures

Portal fissures [porta hepatis – BNA (The anatomic nomenclature Basel), PNA (The anatomic nomenclature Parisian), JNA (The anatomic nomenclature Yenskaya)] – the cross furrow lying on the visceral (lower) surface of a liver by means of which nerves of a hepatic texture get into a liver a portal vein, a hepatic artery and leave absorbent vessels and a hepatic channel.

 
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