Vesical venous plexus

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Vein: Vesical venous plexus
The veins of the right half of the male pelvis.
Latin plexus venosus vesicalis
Gray's subject #173 676
Drains from    Urinary bladder
Drains to Internal iliac vein
Artery Superior vesical artery
Inferior vesical artery
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The vesical plexus envelops the lower part of the bladder and the base of the prostate and communicates with the pudendal and prostatic plexuses.

It is drained, by means of several vesical veins, into the hypogastric veins.

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