Right gastric vein

Right gastric vein
The portal vein and its tributaries (right gastric vein visible but not labeled)
Details
Drains from	Lesser curvature of the stomach
Drains to	Hepatic portal vein
Artery	Right gastric artery
Identifiers
Latin	Vena gastrica dextra
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_05/12850392
TA	A12.3.12.016
FMA	15400
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The right gastric vein (pyloric vein) drains blood from the lesser curvature of the stomach into the hepatic portal vein.

It is part of the portal circulation.

External links

stomach at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (portalvein)

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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