Suprarenal veins

Suprarenal veins
The anterior surfaces of the kidneys, showing the areas of contact of neighboring viscera.
Details
Drains from	Adrenal gland
Artery	Superior suprarenal artery, middle suprarenal artery, inferior suprarenal artery
Identifiers
Latin	Venae suprarenales
TA	A12.3.09.011 A12.3.09.013
FMA	14348
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The Suprarenal veins are two in number:

the right ends in the inferior vena cava.
the left ends in the left renal or left inferior phrenic vein.

They receive blood from the adrenal glands and will sometimes form anastomoses with the inferior phrenic veins.

Additional images

Diagram showing completion of development of the parietal veins.
Suprarenal glands viewed from the front.
Suprarenal glands viewed from behind.

References

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

External links

Anatomy photo:40:04-0104 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Posterior Abdominal Wall: Blood Supply to the Suprarenal Glands"
"Left suprarenal vein" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary

Veins of the abdomen and pelvis

To azygos system

ascending lumbar
- subcostal

IVC
(Systemic)

To IVC or left renal vein

Common iliac

Unpaired

median sacral vein

Internal iliac

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

External iliac

Portal vein
(Portal)

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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