Celiac Trunk Flashcards

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Smallest branch. Runs up to the left, where it supplies some esophagus and cardia of stomach; it then branches onto the lesser curvature within the lesser omentum

A

Left gastric artery

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Comes off the aorta just below the diaphragm

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Celiac trunk

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Largest branch; very tortuous as it passes along the upper border of the pancreas. Sends branches to spleen, pancreas, greater curvature of the stomach

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Splenic artery

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