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Where is the liver located

where is the liver located

Clear images to give you a clear answer on the question: where is the liver located. Your liver is partly protected by the rib cage. Your liver consists of two lobes: the right lobe is about six times the size of your left lobe.

 

Where is the liver in the body?

 

The scan from father’s metastatic liver cancer should be interpreted as follows:

 

where is your liver located

Where is your liver located ?

 

The above picture from father’s scan where father is lying on his back. Imagine you are standing at father’s feet looking up:

 

mri scanner

 

So in order to know where is the liver located in the human body you need to remember that in the MRI scans you are looking from below and up.

 

In father’s post of November 2006 where is my liver located, father confusingly described you should look at the scan from above. It was just in indication from what was to come: having a liver not cleaning up his blood properly, his brain would start to play tricks on him.

 

Another "up side down" example was when father one evening wanted to lower the window shutters. In stead started to pull at them.

 

When no shutters came down, father thought it was because he was loosing strength so he started to pull the shutters full force.

 

It took lots of persuasion and a few minutes of time before father realised he was pulling the shutters up in stead of letting them down…

 

If you would love to see more illustrations to find out where is the liver located, please leave a comment!

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  1. More metastatic liver cancer minds out of control on February 13th, 2009 1:34 pm

    [...] in reality you should look from bottom to top (thanks to one of our readers to point this out in where is the liver located). This was 1 and a half month after he was diagnosed with metastatic liver [...]

     
  2. Metastatic liver cancer » Metastatic liver cancer facts : secondary liver cancer on August 18th, 2008 1:19 pm

    [...] Updated August 18, 2008: we added a “roadmap” to clearly read what is happening in the above metastatic liver cancer scan at Where is the liver located. [...]

     

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