The termination of the vena gastrica sinistra in 220 cadavers

Gross Anatomy of the Portal Vein and its Tributaries in the Opossum (Didelphis albiventris)

“…The study of the complex anatomical variability of the venous affluents forming the portal venous trunk (portal vein) and its collateral tributaries-which was the aim of this research, in the opossum-is supported by the literature related to the portalhepatic system in some domestic animals (Kalt and Stump, 1993;Libersa and Laude, 1965;Walker, 1972;Evans and Christensen, 1979;Maala and Sack, 1983;Fragoso Neto, 1983;Duarte, 1989;Kalt and Stump, 1993) and in man (Didio, 1952 and1961). The results obtaincd in this study lead to the conclusion that the portal vein of the opossum (Didelphis alhiventris) is formed by the confluence of the cranial and caudal mesenteric, and lienal veins-vent observed in 100% of the studied animals.…”

“…These variations can cause difficulties when carrying out experimental research in this region. This anatomical variability of several tributary vessels leading to the portal vein was confirmed in mammals such as dogs (Kalt and Stump, 1993;Libersa and Laude, 1965;Evans and Christensen, 1979;Duarte 1989), cats (Walker, 1972;Fragoso Neto, 1983), oxen (Maala and Sack, 1983) and in man (Didio, 19.52;1961). In dogs 'the pre-hepatic portion of the portal vein' was described as being formed, invariably, by the confluence of the cranial and caudal mesenteric veins (Kalt and Stump, 1993).…”

Aberrant left gastric vein directly draining into the liver

“…The left gastric vein is a tributary of the portal vein or the lienal vein and has a few variations of its mode of termination (Aso, 1931;DiDio, 1961;Roi, 1993). The gastric coronary vein is rarely replaced by other veins, such as the pyrolic or esophageal veins (Mori, 1941).…”

A “churrascaria” of Brazilian science and biomedicine: The Anatomical Record offers a sampling from the hearty table of South America's giant in a Special Issue

“…DiDio. DiDio published two papers in The Anatomical Record in the early 1960s, one assessing variation of the morphology of the gastric veins in cadavers (DiDio, 1961) and a second, a study of the choledochoduodenal junction in the horse in collaboration with the great American anatomist Edwin Allen Boyden (Didio & Boyden, 1961). DiDio, as with Bovero, was both a towering figure in the world of Brazilian biomedicine and an internationally respected scholar.…”