Right gastric artery

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Artery: Right gastric artery
The celiac artery and its branches; the stomach has been raised and the peritoneum removed. (Right gastric artery visible at center left.)
Right gastric artery is at #2 -- the lower of the two arrows.
Latin arteria gastrica dextra
Gray's subject #154 604
Supplies stomach
Source common hepatic artery   
Vein right gastric vein
Dorlands
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The right gastric artery (pyloric artery) arises from the common hepatic artery, above the pylorus, descends to the pyloric end of the stomach, and passes from right to left along its lesser curvature, supplying it with branches, and anastomosing with the left gastric artery.

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

The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed.

[edit] References

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

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