Short gastric arteries

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Artery: Short gastric arteries

The celiac artery and its branches; the stomach has been raised and the peritoneum removed. (Short gastric visible at center right.)
Latin	arteriae gastricae breves
Gray's	subject #154 606
Supplies	Greater curvature of the stomach
Source	splenic artery
Dorlands / Elsevier	a_61/12154318

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

The short gastric arteries consist of from five to seven small branches, which arise from the end of the splenic artery, and from its terminal divisions.

They pass from left to right, between the layers of the gastrolienal ligament, and are distributed to the greater curvature of the stomach, anastomosing with branches of the left gastric and left gastroepiploic arteries.

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Norman/Georgetown celiactrunk

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Arteries of torso - abdomen

AA:
Anterior

celiac	left gastric splenic: pancreatic branches (arteria pancreatica magna) – short gastric – left gastro-omental common hepatic: proper hepatic (cystic), right gastric, gastroduodenal (right gastro-omental, superior pancreaticoduodenal)
SMA	inferior pancreaticoduodenal – intestinal – ileocolic (appendicular) – right colic – middle colic
IMA	left colic – sigmoid – superior rectal – marginal