04.2 Coeliac Trunk Anatomy

Question 1

What are the three main branches of the coeliac trunk?

Answer 1

Left gastric artery.
Splenic artery.
Common hepatic artery.

Question 2

What does the left gastric artery supply?

Answer 2

Oesophagus.
Cardia area of the stomach.

(Anastomoses with the right gastric artery)

Question 3

What branches does the splenic artery give rise to?

Answer 3

Left gastroepiploic.
Short gastrics.
Pancreatic branches.

Question 4

What does the left gastroepiploic artery supply?

Answer 4

Greater curvature of the stomach.

Anastamoses with the right gastroepiploic artery

Question 5

What do the short gastric arteries supply?

Answer 5

Fundus of the stomach.

Question 6

What do the pancreatic branches of the splenic artery supply?

Answer 6

The body and tail of the pancreas.

Question 7

What does the splenic artery look like?

Answer 7

Very tortuous appearance.

Question 8

What are the two main branches of the common hepatic artery?

Answer 8

Proper hepatic.

Gastroduodenal.

Question 9

What are the branches of the proper hepatic artery?

Answer 9

Right gastric artery.
Right and left hepatic artery.
Cystic artery.

Question 10

What does the right gastric artery supply?

Answer 10

The pylorus.

Lesser curvature of the stomach.

Question 11

What do the right and left hepatic arteries supply?

Answer 11

Liver.

Question 12

What does the cystic artery supply?

Answer 12

The gallbladder.

Question 13

What are the branches of the gastroduodenal artery?

Answer 13

Right gastroepiploic artery.

Superior pancreaticoduodenal artery.

Question 14

What does the right gastroepiploic artery supply?

Answer 14

Greater curvature of the stomach.

Greater omentum.

Question 15

What is another name for gastroepiploic?

Answer 15

Gastro-omental.

Question 16

What does the superior pancreaticoduodenal artery supply?

Answer 16

Head of the pancreas.

Question 17

What is the only organ to receive blood supply from all three main arteries of the coeliac trunk?

Answer 17

Stomach.

Question 18

What artery supplies part of the pancreas that isn’t a branch of the coeliac trunk?

Answer 18

Inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery - a branch of the SMA.

Question 19

What artery is a peptic ulcer most likely to erode?

Answer 19

Gastroduodenal artery.

Question 20

What artery is a gastric ulcer likely to erode through?

Answer 20

The right and left gastric arteries (as these supply the lesser curvature of the stomach)

Question 21

What is coeliac trunk compression syndrome?

Answer 21

Where the median arcuate ligament lies anteriorly to the coeliac trunk rather than superiorly.

This causes pain due to the ischaemia of the abdominal organs.

Question 22

What branch of the coeliac trunk is most likely to have an aneurysm?

Answer 22

Splenic artery.

Question 23

Put these branches of the aorta in order of where they are given off superiorly to inferiorly:

Renal arteries
SMA
Gonadal arteries
Coeliac trunk
IMA

Answer 23

Coeliac trunk
SMA
Renal arteries
Gonadal arteries
IMA