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Left gastroepiploic artery

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Source
  
Splenic artery

TA
  
A12.2.12.047

Dorlands /Elsevier
  
a_61/12154379

Left gastroepiploic artery

Vein
  
Left gastroepiploic vein

Supplies
  
Greater curvature of the stomach

Latin
  
Arteria gastroomentalis sinistra, arteria gastroepiploica sinistra

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:

  • "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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