Digestive System Vasculature - Tissues Supplied and Locations

Pancreas, spleen, and stomach

What does the splenic artery supply?

Posterior to body and tail of pancreas

Where is the splenic artery located?

Pancreas, spleen, and stomach

What does the splenic vein drain?

Posterior to body and tail of pancreas

Where is the splenic vein located?

Esophageal arteries, left gastric artery, and left inferior phrenic artery

What arteries supply the esophagus?

Thoracic aorta

What are the esophageal arteries a branch of?

Esophageal veins, left gastric vein, and left inferior phrenic vein

What veins drain the esophagus?

Azygos vein

What do the esophageal veins drain into?

Right gastro-omental artery, left gastro-omental artery, and short gastric arteries

What arteries supply the greater curvature of the stomach?

Right gastric artery and left gastric artery

What arteries supply the lesser curvature of the stomach?

Posterior gastric artery

What artery supplies the posterior wall of the stomach?

Right gastro-omental vein, left gastro-omental vein, and short gastric veins

What veins drains the greater curvature of the stomach?

Right gastric vein and left gastric vein

What veins drain the lesser curvature of the stomach?

Middle gastric vein

What vein drains the posterior wall of the stomach?

Superior pancreaticoduodenal artery and inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery (and anterior and posterior branches of each)

What arteries supply the head of the pancreas and the duodenum?

Anterior superior pancreaticoduodenal vein, posterior superior pancreaticoduodenal vein, anterior inferior pancreaticoduodenal vein, and posterior inferior pancreaticoduodenal vein

What veins drain the head of the pancreas and the duodenum?

Intestinal arteries and vasa recta off arterial arcades

What arteries supply the jejunum and ileum?

Intestinal veins and vasa recta into venous arcades

What veins drain the jejunum and ileum?

Transverse colon

What does the middle colic artery supply?

Ascending colon

What does the right colic artery supply

Ileum, cecum, and appendix

What does the ileocolic artery supply?

Descending colon

What does the left colic artery supply?

Sigmoid colon

What do the sigmoid arteries supply?

Superior rectum

What does the superior rectal artery supply?

Transverse colon

What does the middle colic vein drain?

Ascending colon

What does the right colic vein drain?

Cecum, appendix, and ileum

What does the ileocolic vein drain?

Descending colon

What does the left colic vein drain?

Sigmoid colon

What do the sigmoid veins drain?

Superior rectum

What does the superior rectal vein drain?