Ileocolic vein

Ileocolic vein
The portal vein and its tributaries.
Details
Source	appendicular vein
Drains to	superior mesenteric vein
Artery	ileocolic artery
Identifiers
Latin	vena ileocolica
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_05/12850536
TA	A12.3.12.024
FMA	15408
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The ileocolic vein is a vein which drains the ileum, colon, and cecum.

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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