Right_gastric_artery

Right gastric artery

Right gastric artery

Blood vessel of the human digestive system

The right gastric artery usually arises from the proper hepatic artery. It descends to the pyloric end of the stomach before passing from right to left along its lesser curvature, supplying it with branches, and finally anastomosing with the left gastric artery.[1][verification needed]

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Anatomy

Variation

Origin

In most (53%) individuals, the RGA arises from the proper hepatic artery. It can also arise from the region of division of the common hepatic artery (20%), the left branch of the hepatic artery (15%), the gastroduodenal artery (8%), and - most rarely - the common hepatic artery itself (4%).[1]

Additional images

Blood supply to the stomach: left and right gastric artery, left and right gastro-omental artery and short gastric artery.[2]
  • The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed.
  • Right gastric artery

References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 604 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

  1. [1]
    Eckmann, I.; Krahn, V. (1984). "Frequency of different sites of origin of the right gastric artery". Anatomischer Anzeiger. 155 (1–5): 65–70. ISSN 0003-2786. PMID 6721206.
  2. [2]
    Essential Clinical Anatomy. K.L. Moore & A.M. Agur. Lippincott, 2 ed. 2002. Page 150


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