During surgical treatment of poal hypeension in a 59-year-old man with liver cirrhosis, a surgeon inadveently lacerates the dilated paraumbilical veins. The veins must be repaired to allow collateral flow. Which of the following ligaments is most likely severed?

The paraumbilical veins and the ligamentum teres hepatis are contained in the free margin of the falciform ligament. The lienorenal ligament contains the splenic vessels and a small poion of the tail of the pancreas. The lienogastric ligament contains the left gastroepiploic and sho gastric vessels. The gastrophrenic ligament contains no named structures. The hepatoduodenal ligament, a pa of the lesser omentum, contains the bile duct, proper hepatic aery, and poal vein in its free margin.