Pancreatic veins

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Vein: Pancreatic veins
Latin	venae pancreaticae
Gray's	subject #174 681
Drains from	pancreas
Drains to	splenic vein
Dorlands / Elsevier	v_05/12851225

The pancreatic veins consist of several small vessels which drain the body and tail of the pancreas, and open into the trunk of the great pancreatic vein.

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v • d • e Veins of the torso Coronary coronary sinus (great cardiac, left marginal, small cardiac, middle cardiac, posterior of the left ventricle, oblique of the left atrium) • anterior cardiac (right marginal) • pulmonary Thorax/ SVC brachiocephalic: internal thoracic (anterior intercostal, superior epigastric) - left superior intercostal - supreme - vertebral - subclavian (axillary: lateral thoracic, thoracoepigastric, dorsal scapular) - pericardiacophrenic azygos: right superior intercostal - bronchial - intercostal/posterior intercostal 5-11 - accessory hemiazygos/hemiazygos - superior phrenic Vertebral column vertebral venous plexuses (external, internal) • spinal (posterior, anterior) • basivertebral • intervertebral Abdomen/ IVC to IVC (some to renal vein on left): inferior phrenic - hepatic - suprarenal - renal - gonadal (ovarian ♀/testicular ♂, pampiniform plexus ♂) - lumbar - common iliac to azygos system: ascending lumbar (subcostal) Pelvis/common iliac median sacral vein external iliac: inferior epigastric - deep circumflex iliac vein internal iliac - posterior: iliolumbar - superior gluteal - lateral sacral internal iliac - anterior: inferior gluteal - obturator - uterine ♀ (uterine plexus ♀) - vesical (vesical plexus, prostatic plexus ♂, deep of penis ♂/clitoris ♀, posterior scrotal ♂/labial ♀) - vaginal plexus/vein ♀ - middle rectal - internal pudendal (inferior rectal, bulb of penis ♂/vestibule ♀) - rectal plexus Portal system/ portal vein splenic: short gastric - left gastroepiploic - pancreatic - inferior mesenteric (superior rectal, left colic) superior mesenteric: right gastroepiploic - pancreaticoduodenal - jejunal - ileal - middle colic - right colic - ileocolic (appendicular) direct (cystic, left gastric/esophageal, right gastric, paraumbilical) fetal ductus venosus • umbilical