Cystic vein

Cystic vein
The portal vein and its tributaries.
Details
Drains from	gallbladder
Drains to	hepatic portal vein
Artery	cystic artery
Identifiers
Latin	vena cystica
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_05/12850070
TA	A12.3.12.012
FMA	15403
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

When present the cystic vein drains the blood from the gall-bladder, and, accompanying the cystic duct, usually ends in the right branch of the portal vein. It is usually not present, and the blood drains via small veins in the gall-bladder bed directly to the parenchyma of the liver.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

Fine A (1997). "The cystic vein: the significance of a forgotten anatomic landmark". JSLS 1 (3): 263–6. PMC 3016730. PMID 9876684.

Veins of the abdomen and pelvis

To azygos system

ascending lumbar
- subcostal

IVC
(Systemic)

To IVC or left renal vein

Common iliac

Unpaired

median sacral vein

Internal iliac

posterior:	iliolumbar superior gluteal lateral sacral

anterior:	inferior gluteal obturator uterine ♀ uterine plexus ♀ vesical vesical plexus prostatic plexus ♂ deep of penis ♂/clitoris ♀ posterior scrotal ♂/labial ♀ vaginal plexus/vein ♀ middle rectal internal pudendal inferior rectal bulb of penis ♂/vestibule ♀ rectal plexus

External iliac

Portal vein
(Portal)

Splenic	short gastric left gastroepiploic pancreatic inferior mesenteric superior rectal left colic

Superior mesenteric	right gastroepiploic pancreaticoduodenal jejunal ileal middle colic right colic ileocolic appendicular

Direct	cystic left gastric/esophageal right gastric paraumbilical

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