The caudate lobe drains venous blood directly into which major vein?

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Caudate lobe venous outflow is direct to the systemic circulation. It drains via short hepatic veins that connect straight to the inferior vena cava, bypassing the main hepatic veins. So the blood from this lobe returns to the heart through the IVC. The portal vein brings blood into the liver for processing, not outflow, and the right/left/middle hepatic veins drain other parts of the liver into the IVC, not the caudate lobe directly.