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
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:

Additional images

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

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



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