Neurovascular supply

Question 1

Branches of what supply the GI tract?

Answer 1

The abdominal aorta

Question 2

Which is the most superior branch of the abdominal aorta?

Answer 2

The coeliac trunk

Question 3

What level is the coeliac trunk?

Answer 3

T12

Question 4

Which is the next branch?

Answer 4

The superior mesenteric

Question 5

What level does the superior mesenteric artery leave?

Answer 5

L1

Question 6

What level does the inferior mesenteric artery leave?

Answer 6

L3

Question 7

What structures does the coeliac trunk supply?

Answer 7

The stomach, superior duodenum, liver, gall bladder, spleen and pancreas

Question 8

What does the coeliac trunk immediately split into?

Answer 8

The common hepatic, left gastric and splenic arteries.

Question 9

What arteries supply the stomach?

Answer 9

The left and right gastric arteries and the left and right gastroepiplotic arteries

Question 10

What supplies the superior duodenum?

Answer 10

The superior pancreaticoduodenal arteru

Question 11

What arteries supply the liver?

Answer 11

The left and right hepatic arteries

Question 12

What artery supplies the gall bladder?

Answer 12

The cystic artery

Question 13

What supplies the spleen?

Answer 13

The splenic artery

Question 14

What supplies the pancreas?

Answer 14

superior pancreaticoduodenal artery?

Question 15

What structures does the superior mesenteric artery supply?

Answer 15

The small and large intetsines from the inferior duodenumm to the proximal half of the transverse colon.

Question 16

What does the inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery arise from?

Answer 16

The superior mesenteric artery

Question 17

What does the inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery supply?

Answer 17

The inferior duodenum and pancreas

Question 18

What are the large loops in the branches from the superior mesenteric artery called?

Answer 18

arcades

Question 19

What does the ileocolic artery supply?

Answer 19

The terminal ileum, caecum, vermiform appendix and proximal ascending colon

Question 20

What does the right colic artery supply?

Answer 20

distal ascending colon

Question 21

What does the middle colic artery supply?

Answer 21

The distal transverse colon

Question 22

What structures does the inferior mesenteric artery supply?

Answer 22

The hindgut structures including from the proximal transverse colon to the rectum

Question 23

What does the left colic artery supply?

Answer 23

The descending colon

Question 24

Where does blood go from these arteries?

Answer 24

Drains into the superior and inferior mesenteric veins which join with the splenic vein to form the hepatic portal veins.