Translations:Leber (Hepar)/70/en

View from dorsal on the pars superior of the facies diaphragmatica	View from ventral to facies diaphragmatica	View from caudal to facies visceralis
Most of the liver surface is surrounded with visceral peritoneum. However, the area nuda remains the only one free of peritoneum, its surface forming the connective tissue capsule. Outside the peritoneal covering, the usually three Vv. hepatica leave the liver. A peculiarity is that in the liver only the afferent artery and afferent V. portae hepatis as well as Ductus choledochus run in the mesohepaticum, while the efferent veins do not. At the points of transition from the visceral to the parietal peritoneum on the underside of the diaphragm, the connective tissue peritoneal epithelium appears as a "cord" (lig. coronarium). From this connective tissue structure, a small cusp (appendix fibrosa hepatis) develops on the left lobe of the liver.	From the ventral view, the two lobes of the liver, the large lobus hepatis dexter and the smaller lobus hepatis sinister, are clearly visible. The lig. falciforme hepatis runs between the two lobes. The ligamentum falciforme hepatis forms the mesohepaticum ventrale and thus the connection between the liver and the abdominal wall.	The caudal view provides a view of two more of the total four lobes of the liver: the lobus caudatus and the lobus quadratus hepatis. The hepatoduodenal ligament, together with the hepatogastric ligament, serves the liver as the mesohepaticum dorsale and is topographically part of the omentum minus. The gallbladder overhangs the inferior border of the liver with the fundus and lies close to the facies visceralis. The neck of the gallbladder points toward the hepatic orifice, where it comes into contact with the extrahepatic bile ducts.