Superior epigastric vein

Superior epigastric vein

Superior epigastric artery, internal thoracic artery and inferior epigastric artery. (Superior epigastric artery is labeled at right center, and superior epigastric vein runs with it.)
Details
Drains from abdominal wall and some of the diaphragm
Drains to internal thoracic vein
Artery superior epigastric artery
Identifiers
Latin venae epigastricae superiores
Dorlands
/Elsevier
v_05/12850275
TA A12.3.04.019
FMA 70836

Anatomical terminology

In human anatomy, superior epigastric vein refers to a blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood and drains into the internal thoracic vein. It anastomoses with the inferior epigastric vein at the level of the umbilicus and drains the anterior part of the abdominal wall and some of the diaphragm.

Along its course, it is accompanied by a similarly named artery, the superior epigastric artery.

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