Uterine venous plexus

Uterine venous plexus
Vessels of the uterus and its appendages, rear view.
Details
Drains to	uterine veins
Latin	plexus venosus uterinus
Dorlands /Elsevier	p_24/12648682
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The uterine plexuses lie along the sides and superior angles of the uterus between the two layers of the broad ligament, and communicate with the ovarian and vaginal plexuses.

They are drained by a pair of uterine veins on either side: these arise from the lower part of the plexuses, opposite the external orifice of the uterus, and open into the corresponding hypogastric vein.

Vasopressors, vasoconstrictor medications may be prescribed to alleviate the associated discomfort by shrinking the effected 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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