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Left gastroepiploic artery

Left gastroepiploic artery
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The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed. (Left gastroepiploic artery visible at lower right.)
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Right and left gastroomental is at #4.
Details
Source Splenic artery
Vein Left gastroepiploic vein
Supplies Greater curvature of the stomach
Identifiers
Latin Arteria gastroomentalis sinistra,
arteria gastroepiploica sinistra
Dorlands
/Elsevier
a_61/12154379
TA A12.2.12.047
FMA 14796
Anatomical terminology
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The left gastroepiploic artery (or left gastro-omental artery), the largest branch of the splenic artery, runs from left to right about a finger’s breadth or more from the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, and anastomoses with the right gastroepiploic (a branch of the right gastro-duodenal artery originating from the hepatic branch of the Coeliac trunk).

In its course it distributes:

Branches of the celiac artery.

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)




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