Short gastric veins

Short gastric veins
The portal vein and its tributaries (short gastric veins visible at upper right)
Details
Drains fromStomach
Drains toSplenic vein
Identifiers
LatinVenae gastricae breves
TA98A12.3.12.030
TA25125
FMA70931
Anatomical terminology

The short gastric veins, four or five in number, drain the fundus and left part of the greater curvature of the stomach, and pass between the two layers of the gastrolienal ligament to end in the splenic vein or in one of its large tributaries.

References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 681 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


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