Short gastric veins

Short gastric veins
The portal vein and its tributaries (short gastric veins visible at upper right)
Details
Drains from	Stomach
Drains to	Splenic vein
Identifiers
Latin	Venae gastricae breves
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_05/12850386
TA	A12.3.12.030
FMA	70931
Anatomical terminology []

The short gastric veins, four or five in number, drain the fundus and left part of the greater curvature of the stomach, and pass between the two layers of the gastrolienal ligament to end in the splenic vein or in one of its large tributaries.

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