Superior margin of pancreas

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Superior margin of pancreas
1: Head of pancreas 2: Uncinate process of pancreas 3: Pancreatic notch 4: Body of pancreas 5: Anterior surface of pancreas 6: Inferior surface of pancreas 7: Superior margin of pancreas 8: Anterior margin of pancreas 9: Inferior margin of pancreas 10: Omental tuber 11: Tail of pancreas 12: Duodenum
Latin	margo superior corporis pancreatis
Gray's	subject #251 1201
Dorlands/Elsevier	m_04/12514957

The superior margin of pancreas is blunt and flat to the right; narrow and sharp to the left, near the tail.

It commences on the right in the omental tuberosity, and is in relation with the celiac artery, from which the hepatic artery courses to the right just above the gland, while the lienal artery runs toward the left in a groove along this border.

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