Middle colic vein

Middle colic vein
Portal vein and tributaries. (Middle colic vein hidden behind pancreas, but it is possible to see where it drains to the superior mesenteric.)
Details
Drains from	transverse colon
Drains to	superior mesenteric vein
Artery	middle colic artery
Identifiers
Latin	vena colica media
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_04/12847534
TA	A12.3.12.027
FMA	15406
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The middle colic vein drains the transverse colon. It is a tributary of the superior mesenteric vein, and follows the path of its corresponding artery, the middle colic artery.

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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