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Left gastroepiploic artery

Left gastroepiploic artery

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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).

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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.

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Blood supply to the stomach: left and right gastric artery, left and right gastro-omental artery and short gastric artery.[1]

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Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 606 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

  1. [1]
    Essential Clinical Anatomy. K.L. Moore & A.M. Agur. Lippincott, 2 ed. 2002. Page 150


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