Hepatic artery proper

Artery: Hepatic artery proper

The hepatic artery proper branches from the common hepatic artery. (Hepatic artery labeled near center, on path to liver at upper left.)

Inferior surface of the liver. (Entrance for hepatic artery labeled at bottom center.)
Latin	arteria hepatica propria
Gray's	subject #154 603
Source	common hepatic artery
Dorlands / Elsevier	a_61/12154486

The hepatic artery proper (also proper hepatic artery), arises from the common hepatic artery and runs alongside the portal vein and the common bile duct to form the portal triad. It subsequently gives off the cystic artery which feeds the gallbladder before bifurcating into the right and left hepatic arteries.

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The celiac artery and its branches; the stomach has been raised and the peritoneum removed.	The portal vein and its tributaries.	Abdominal portion of the sympathetic trunk, with the celiac and hypogastric plexuses.	Horizontal disposition of the peritoneum in the upper part of the abdomen.
Section across portal canal of pig. X 250.	The pancreatic duct.	Liver and gallbladder

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AA:
Anterior

celiac	left gastric: esophageal branches splenic: pancreatic branches (greater, dorsal) – short gastric – left gastro-omental common hepatic: proper hepatic (cystic), right gastric, gastroduodenal (right gastro-omental, superior pancreaticoduodenal, supraduodenal)

SMA	inferior pancreaticoduodenal – intestinal (jejunal, ileal, arcades, vasa recta) – ileocolic (colic, anterior cecal, posterior cecal, ileal branch, appendicular) – right colic – middle colic

IMA	left colic – sigmoid – superior rectal – marginal