Common hepatic artery

Common hepatic artery
Branches of the celiac artery - stomach in situ. (Hepatic artery is visible at upper left.)
3D-rendered computed tomography, showing common hepatic artery in center
Details
Source	celiac artery
Branches	hepatic artery proper Right gastric artery gastroduodenal artery
Identifiers
Latin	arteria hepatica communis
Dorlands /Elsevier	a_61/12154478
TA	A12.2.12.015
FMA	14771
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The common hepatic artery is a short blood vessel that supplies oxygenated blood to the liver, pylorus of the stomach, duodenum and pancreas.

It arises from the celiac artery and has the following branches:

Branch	Details
hepatic artery proper	supplies the gallbladder via the cystic artery and the liver via the left and right hepatic arteries
gastroduodenal artery	branches into the right gastroepiploic artery and superior pancreaticoduodenal artery
Right gastric artery	branches to supply the lesser curvature of the stomach inferiorly

Additional images

Common hepatic artery

External links

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Anatomy photo:38:03-0204 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: Contents of the Hepatoduodenal ligament"
celiactrunk at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)

Arteries of the abdomen and pelvis

Abdominal
aorta

Parietal branches

Celiac artery

Left gastric	Esophageal branches

Common hepatic	Proper hepatic cystic Right gastric Gastroduodenal right gastroepiploic superior pancreaticoduodenal supraduodenal

Splenic	Pancreatic branches greater dorsal Short gastric Left gastroepiploic

Umbilical	Superior vesical to ductus deferens

Obturator	Anterior branch Posterior branch

Middle rectal	Vaginal branch

Uterine	Arcuate Vaginal of uterine Ovarian of uterine Tubal of uterine Spiral

Vaginal Inferior vesical

Inferior gluteal	Accompanying of ischiadic nerve Cruciate anastomosis

Internal pudendal	Inferior rectal Perineal posterior scrotal posterior labial Bulb of penis/vestibule Urethral Deep artery of the penis helicine Deep artery of clitoris Dorsal of the penis Dorsal of the clitoris

Iliolumbar lumbar iliac Lateral sacral Superior gluteal

External iliac

Inferior epigastric
Deep circumflex iliac
Femoral
- see arteries of lower limbs

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