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 #14.
Details
Source	splenic artery
Identifiers
Latin	arteria gastroomentalis sinistra, arteria gastroepiploica sinistra
TA98	A12.2.12.047
TA2	4248
FMA	14796
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.

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

• Branches of the celiac artery.
  Branches of the celiac artery.

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

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 606 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)