Left gastroepiploic artery

Left gastroepiploic artery
The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed. (Left gastroepiploic artery visible at lower right.)
Right and left gastroomental is at #4.
Details
Source	Splenic artery
Vein	Left gastroepiploic vein
Supplies	Greater curvature of the stomach
Identifiers
Latin	Arteria gastroomentalis sinistra, arteria gastroepiploica sinistra
Dorlands /Elsevier	a_61/12154379
TA	A12.2.12.047
FMA	14796
Anatomical terminology

The left gastroepiploic artery (or left gastro-omental artery), the largest branch of the splenic artery, runs from left to right about a finger’s breadth or more from the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, and anastomoses with the right gastroepiploic (a branch of the right gastro-duodenal artery originating from the hepatic branch of the Coeliac trunk).

In its course it distributes:

• "Gastric branches": several ascending branches to both surfaces of the stomach;
• "Omental branches": descend to supply the greater omentum and anastomose with branches of the middle colic.

Additional images

Blood supply to the stomach: left and right gastric artery, left and right gastro-omental artery and short gastric artery.^[1]

• 
  Branches of the celiac artery.

References

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

1. ↑ Essential Clinical Anatomy. K.L. Moore & A.M. Agur. Lippincott, 2 ed. 2002. Page 150

External links

• Anatomy photo:38:02-0103 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: The Right and Left Gastroepiploic Artery"
• Anatomy photo:38:05-0103 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "The Splenic Artery"
• Anatomy image:8215 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center
• celiactrunk at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)