Fig 1.

(A) Female neutered cat; lateral view at the exenterated organs of thoracic cavity. Left medial, right medial and quadrate hepatic lobes are encased in a tendinous portion of the diaphragm, which forms a cupola (arrows show the edges of the cupola). Asterisks mark the muscular part of the diaphragm. The hepatic lobes, which remained in the abdominal cavity, are in the leftmost position. (B) Female neutered cat; enlarged, flaccid central tendinous portion of the diaphragm (arrows) in the cat with diaphragmatic eventration.