Left gastroepiploic vein

Left gastroepiploic vein
Details
Drains to	splenic vein
Artery	left gastro-omental artery
Identifiers
Latin	vena gastroomentalis sinistra, vena gastroepiploica sinistra
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_05/12850433
TA	A12.3.12.031
FMA	15390
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The left gastroepiploic vein (left gastro-omental vein) receives branches from the antero-superior and postero-inferior surfaces of the stomach and from the greater omentum; it runs from right to left along the greater curvature of the stomach and ends in the commencement of the splenic vein.

It drains into the superior mesenteric vein.

References

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

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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