Blood Supply to the gut

Question 1

What are the 3 main branches which supply the gut tube?

Answer 1

Celiac Trunk
Superior Mesenteric
Inferior Mesenteric

Question 2

At what vertebral levels do the 3 branches supplying the gut tube occur?

Answer 2

Celiac trunk - T12
Superior Mesenteric - L1
Inferior Mesenteric - L3

Question 3

Name the foregut structures

Answer 3

Abdominal part of oesophagus
Stomach
Proximal Duodenum
Gall Bladder
Pancreas

Question 4

Name the midgut structures

Answer 4

Ascending colon
Appendix
Distal duodenum
Caecum
Transverse colon

Question 5

Name the hindgut structures

Answer 5

Descending colon
Sigmoid colon
Rectum

Question 6

What is the artery supplying the foregut?

Answer 6

Celiac trunk

Question 7

What is the artery supplying the midgut?

Answer 7

Superior Mesenteric artery

Question 8

What is the artery supplying the handgun?

Answer 8

Inferior mesenteric artery

Question 9

What is a portal system?

Answer 9

System of blood vessels which has a capillary network at each end

Question 10

The portal vein is formed by the union of which 2 major veins of the abdominal cavity?

Answer 10

Superior Mesenteric

Splenic

Question 11

Blood from the gut tube superior to the diaphragm and inferior to the pelvic floor drains via what?

Answer 11

The systemic venous system

Question 12

List the 4 sites of portocaval anastomosis

Answer 12

Distal oesophagus
Rectum
Paraumbilical
Retroperitoneal