Left gastroepiploic artery

Left gastro-omental 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
Latin	Arteria gastroomentalis sinistra, arteria gastroepiploica sinistra
Supplies	Greater curvature of the stomach
Source	Splenic artery
Vein	Left gastro-omental vein
Identifiers
Gray's	p.606
Dorlands /Elsevier	a_61/12154379
Anatomical terminology

The left gastro-omental artery (or left gastroepiploic 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 gastric artery and right gastric artery, left and right gastro-omental artery and short gastric artery.^[1]

Branches of the celiac artery.

References

^ 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)

This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.

List of arteries of torso – abdomen

Parietal

celiac

left gastric	esophageal branches

common hepatic	proper hepatic (cystic) right gastric gastroduodenal (right gastro-omental, superior pancreaticoduodenal, supraduodenal)

splenic	pancreatic branches (greater, dorsal) short gastric left gastro-omental

SMA

inferior pancreaticoduodenal
intestinal (jejunal, ileal, arcades, vasa recta)
ileocolic (colic, anterior cecal, posterior cecal, ileal branch, appendicular)
right colic
middle colic

IMA

Posterior

visceral

terminal/
common iliac

IIA

umbilical	superior vesical to ductus deferens ♂ medial umbilical ligament

obturator	anterior branch posterior branch

middle rectal	vaginal branch ♀

uterine ♀	arcuate vaginal of uterine ovarian of uterine tubal of uterine spiral

V/IV	vaginal ♀ inferior vesical ♂

inferior gluteal	accompanying of ischiadic nerve cruciate anastomosis

internal pudendal	inferior rectal perineal (posterior scrotal ♂/labial ♀) bulb of penis ♂/vestibule ♀ urethral deep artery of the penis ♂ (helicine)/clitoris ♀ dorsal of the penis ♂/clitoris ♀

Posterior

EIA

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Left gastroepiploic artery