Right colic vein

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Vein: Right colic vein
Latin vena colica dextra
Drains to superior mesenteric vein
Artery right colic artery
Dorlands
/ Elsevier     		v_05/12849955

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]



The right colic vein drains the ascending colon, and is a tributary of the superior mesenteric vein. It travels with its corresponding artery, the right colic artery.

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Veins of the torso
Coronarycoronary sinus (great cardiac, left marginal, small cardiac, middle cardiac, posterior of the left ventricle, oblique of the left atrium) • anterior cardiac (right marginal) • pulmonary
Thorax/
SVC		brachiocephalic: inferior thyroid - thymic - internal thoracic (anterior intercostal, superior epigastric) - left superior intercostal - supreme - vertebral - internal jugular - subclavian (axillary: lateral thoracic, thoracoepigastric) - pericardiacophrenic
azygos: right superior intercostal - bronchial - intercostal/posterior intercostal 5-11 - accessory hemiazygos/hemiazygos - superior phrenic
Vertebral columnvertebral venous plexuses (external, internal) • spinal (posterior, anterior) • basivertebral • intervertebral
Abdomen/
IVC		to IVC on right and left: renal - hepatic - lumbar

to IVC on right, renal vein on left: inferior phrenic - suprarenal - ovarian/testicular (pampiniform plexus)

to azygos system: ascending lumbar (subcostal)
Pelvis/common iliacexternal iliac: inferior epigastric - deep circumflex iliac vein
internal iliac: inferior gluteal - superior gluteal - median sacral vein - lateral sacral - obturator - internal pudendal (inferior rectal) - vesical venous plexus - prostatic venous plexus - deep of penis - vaginal venous plexus - uterine venous plexus - middle rectal - hemorrhoidal
Portal system/
portal vein		splenic: short gastric - left gastroepiploic - pancreatic - inferior mesenteric (superior rectal, left colic)

superior mesenteric: right gastroepiploic - pancreaticoduodenal - middle colic - right colic - ileocolic (appendicular)

direct (cystic, left gastric, right gastric, paraumbilical)
fetalductus venosus • umbilical
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