Pancreaticoduodenal veins

Pancreaticoduodenal veins
The portal vein and its tributaries. (Pancreaticoduodenal labeled near center, at pancreas.)
Details
Latin	venae pancreaticoduodenales
Drains from	pancreas, duodenum
Drains to	portal vein, superior mesenteric vein
Artery	Inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery, Superior pancreaticoduodenal artery
Identifiers
Gray's	p.682
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_05/12851232
TA	A12.3.12.023
FMA	70930
Anatomical terminology

The pancreaticoduodenal veins accompany their corresponding arteries: the superior pancreaticoduodenal artery and the inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery ; the lower of the two frequently joins the right gastroepiploic vein.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Veins of the abdomen and pelvis

To azygos system

To IVC or left renal vein

Unpaired

posterior:	iliolumbar superior gluteal lateral sacral

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

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

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