Serrat- Abdominal Vasculature And Lymphatics Flashcards
Blood supply to the GI tract is from ?
Abdominal aorta
What are the three unpaired branches of the aorta that supply the GI tract?
Celiac trunk
Superior mesenteric artery
Inferior mesenteric artery
What artery supplies the embryological foregut?
Celiac trunk
What artery supplies the embryological hindgut?
Inferior mesenteric artery
What artery supplies the embryological midgut?
Superior mesenteric artery
What organs does the celiac trunk supply ?
Esophagus
Stomach
Gallbladder
Pancreas
Duodenum
What organs does the superior mesenteric artery supply?
Duodenum
Jejunum and ileum
Cecum and appendix
Ascending colon
Right (hepatic) colic flexure
Transverse colon
What organs does the inferior mesenteric artery supply?
Transverse colon
Left colic (splenic) flexure
Descending and sigmoid colon
Rectum
Anal canal (upper part)
What are the 3 major branches of the celiac trunk ?
Left gastric, splenic, common hepatic
The superior mesenteric artery passes over the _____ part of the duodenum and travels in the mesentery
3rd
The three main branches of the inferior mesenteric artery are?
Left intestinal (to descending colon)
Sigmoid branches
Superior rectal
The splenic artery gives multiple small unnamed branches to the _____ on its way to the spleen
Pancreas
The short gastric artery is a branch off of the splenic artery and supplies the ______
Fundus of the stomach
The _____ artery branches from the splenic artery very close to the spleen
Left gastroepiploic (supplies greater curvature of the stomach)
The right gastric artery (to lesser curvature) is a branch off of the?
Proper hepatic artery
What are the 5 main branches of the superior mesenteric artery?
- Inferior pancreaticoduodenal
- Intestinal branches (numerous)
- Middle colic
- Right colic
- Ileocolic
What does the inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery supply blood to ?
The inferior pancreas and duodenum
What do the numerous intestinal arteries (off SMA) supply blood to?
Jejunum
Ileum
What does the middle colic artery (off SMA) supply blood to ?
The transverse colon
What does the right colic artery (off of SMA) supply blood to ?
Ascending colon
What does the ileocolic artery (off SMA) supply blood to ?
Cecum
What are the three main branches of the inferior mesenteric artery?
Left colic (to descending colon)
Sigmoid branches (to sigmoid colon)
Superior rectal (to rectum)