Left gastro-omental artery
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| Artery: Left gastro-omental 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. | |
| Latin | arteria gastroomentalis sinistra, arteria gastroepiploica sinistra |
| Gray's | subject #154 606 |
| Supplies | greater curvature of the stomach |
| Source | splenic artery |
| Vein | left gastro-omental vein |
| Dorlands / Elsevier | a_61/12154379 |
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The left gastro-omental artery (or left gastroepiploic 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.
In its course it distributes:
- "Gastric branches": several ascending branches to both surfaces of the stomach;
- "Omental branches": descend to supply the greater omentum and anastomose with branches of the middle colic.
Additional images
 Branches of the celiac artery. |
External links
- SUNY Labs 38:02-0103 - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: The Right and Left Gastroepiploic Artery"
- SUNY Labs 38:05-0103 - "The Splenic Artery"
- SUNY Anatomy Image 8215
- Norman/Georgetown celiactrunk
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| AA: Anterior |
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| AA: Posterior | visceral: middle suprarenal – renal (inferior suprarenal) – testicular/ovarianparietal: inferior phrenic (superior suprarenal) – lumbar – median sacral terminal: common iliac (IIA, EIA) | ||||||
| IIA: Anterior |
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to ductus deferens) –
inferior vesical –
middle rectal –
uterine
(azygos of the vagina) –
vaginal –
obturator
(anterior branch,
posterior branch) –
internal pudendal
(inferior rectal,
perineal,
artery of the urethral bulb,
urethral,
deep artery of the penis,
dorsal artery of the penis) –
inferior gluteal
(accompanying of ischiadic nerve,
crucial anastomosis)
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| IIA: Posterior | |||||||
| EIA | |||||||
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