Right gastric artery

Right gastric artery
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Artery: Right gastric artery

The celiac artery and its branches; the stomach has been raised and the peritoneum removed. (Right gastric artery visible at center left.)

Right gastric artery is at #2 -- the lower of the two arrows.
Latin	arteria gastrica dextra
Gray's	subject #154 604
Supplies	stomach
Source	common hepatic artery
Vein	right gastric vein
Dorlands / Elsevier	a_61/12154326

The right gastric artery (pyloric artery) arises from the common hepatic artery, above the pylorus, descends to the pyloric end of the stomach, and passes from right to left along its lesser curvature, supplying it with branches, and anastomosing with the left gastric artery.

Additional images

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

The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed.

References

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

External links

Right+gastric+artery at eMedicine Dictionary
SUNY Labs 38:01-0102 - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: The Right and Left Gastric Artery"
SUNY Anatomy Image 7886
SUNY Anatomy Image 7898
Norman/Georgetown celiactrunk

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List of arteries of torso – abdomen

AA:
Anterior

celiac	left gastric: esophageal branches splenic: pancreatic branches (greater, dorsal) – short gastric – left gastro-omental common hepatic: proper hepatic (cystic), right gastric, gastroduodenal (right gastro-omental, superior pancreaticoduodenal, supraduodenal)

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

IMA	left colic – sigmoid – superior rectal – marginal

AA:
Posterior

visceral: middle suprarenal – renal (inferior suprarenal, ureteral) – gonadal (testicular ♂ / ovarian ♀)
parietal: inferior phrenic (superior suprarenal) – lumbar – median sacral
terminal: common iliac (IIA, EIA)

IIA:
Anterior

umbilical (superior vesical, to ductus deferens) – middle rectal – obturator (anterior branch, posterior branch) – inferior gluteal (accompanying of ischiadic nerve, crucial anastomosis)

uterine ♀ (helicine, vaginal of uterine, ovarian of uterine, tubal of uterine) – vaginal ♀ / inferior vesical ♂

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

IIA:
Posterior

iliolumbar (lumbar, iliac) – lateral sacral – superior gluteal

EIA

inferior epigastric (cremasteric, round ligament) – deep circumflex iliac – femoral

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