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Left gastroepiploic artery

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Left gastroepiploic artery
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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).

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

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