Which fissure contains the gastrohepatic ligament?

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The vesceral landmarks where ligaments attach define where a fissure on the liver is named. The gastrohepatic ligament is the hepatogastric part of the lesser omentum that connects the stomach to the liver. In the liver’s visceral surface, this region lies near the fissure that corresponds to the ligamentum venosum, which marks a boundary in the left-sided liver between the left lobe and the caudate lobe. So the gastrohepatic (hepatogastric) ligament is described as being contained in the fissure for the ligamentum venosum. The other fissures are associated with different ligaments: the fissure for the ligamentum teres is related to the falciform ligament, the fissure for the coronary ligament relates to the diaphragmatic surface, and the fissure for the hepatoduodenal ligament corresponds to the porta hepatis and the portal triad.