abdominal vasculature Flashcards
What are the three arteries which come off the coeliac artery
forward: left gastric
Left: splenic
right: common hepatic
Where does the coeliac artery come off the aorta
as soon as the aorta enters the abdomen.
between the cura of the diaphragm and behind the median arcuate ligament
what vertebral level does the coeliac trunk exit the aorta
T12
what structures lie either side of the coeliac artery
- coeliac group of of pre aortic lymph nodes
2. coeliac ganglia lie on either side and they send sympathetic nerves to all the branches.
what is directly inferior to the coeliac axis?
the superior portion of the pancreas
what is directly anterior to the coeliac axis?
the peritoneum of posterior wall of the lesser sac.
once the left gastric artery emerges from the coeliac axis which direction does it go? and what artery does it give off?
the left coeliac arteri runs upwards towards the crux of the diaphragm where it gives off an esophageal branch
after giving off an esophageal branch where does the left gastric artery go next?
it heads inferiorly within the lesser omentum to provide arterial supply to the lesser curvature of the stomach.
what ligment does the splenic artery travel through to to get to the hilum of the spleen?
The gastrosplenic or the lienosplenic ligament.
apart from the spleen what else does the splenic artery supply?
the pancreas
the stomach: via the superiorly directing short gastric and the infioriorly directing left gastroepiploic arteries which run on the greater curvature of the stomach in the greater omentum.
when does the common hepatic artery become the hepatic artery?
when it curves upwards into the space between the two layers of the lesser omentum
within the lesser omentum which is more medial? the bile duct of the hepatic artery?
the hepatic artery
are the bile duct and the hepatic artery in front or behind the portal vein?
in front of the portal vein
what does the hepatic artery do when in the porta hepatis?
devide into the left and right branches to supply the right and left sides of the liver
what arteries does the common heptic artery give off before becoming the hepatic artery?
the right gastric and gastroduodenal.
the gastroduodenal artery passess down behind the duodenum D1, to the left of the portal vein and devides into which two arteries?
the right gastroepiploic through the greater omentum and the superior pancreato-duodenal artery
the superior pancreato-duodenal artery devides into two branches which encircle the head of the pancreas what are they called?
the anterior and posterior branches of the superior pancreatoduodenal artery.
They anastomose with branches from the inferior pancreatoduodenal brnach with respective anterior and posterior portions.
the inferior pancreatoduodenar aftery comes off which artery?
SMA
What marker is the distinction between fore and midgut.
the enterance of the bile duct at the ampulla
the superior mesenteric vein joins to which vein to make the portal vein? and at what location?
the splenic.
behind the pancreatic neck.
at the level of the pancreas is the portal vein anterior or posterior?
posterior