Right gastro-omental artery

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Artery: Right gastro-omental artery
The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed. (Right gastroepiploic artery visible at lower left.)
Right and left gastroomental is at #4.
Latin arteria gastro-omentalis dextra, arteria gastroepiploica dextra
Gray's subject #154 604
Source gastroduodenal artery
Vein right gastro-omental vein
Dorlands/Elsevier a_61/12154368

The right gastro-omental artery (or right gastroepiploic artery) runs from right to left along the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, anastomosing with the left gastroepiploic branch of the splenic artery.

Except at the pylorus where it is in contact with the stomach, it lies about a finger's breadth from the greater curvature.

This vessel gives off numerous branches:

  • "gastric branches": ascend to supply both surfaces of the stomach.
  • "omental branches": descend to supply the greater omentum and anastomose with branches of the middle colic.

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