[Hepatic venous system and its application in the so-called split-liver transplantation technic].

Sixty fresh adult livers were obtained from cadavers together with celiac trunk, head of the pancreas and superior mesenteric artery. The right portal vein, left portal vein and their respective branches were dissected as well as the hepatic veins. There was only one right hepatic vein in 59 cases. The median hepatic vein was present in 53 (88.3%) cases and the left hepatic vein only in 46(76.3%). In 59(98.3%) cases, there were right and left portal vein but in one (1.6%) case no portal bifurcation has been found. The median portal vein has been found only in 9(15.2%) cases.