posterior gastric artery

Origin: splenic artery Distribution: gastric wall Course: -> ascends retroperitoneally in the posterior wall of the omental bursa towards the gastric fundus Note: It is omitted from many accounts of the blood supply of the stomach. Its presence may complicate surgery involving the cardia of the stomach.

Properties

FORM: posterior gastric artery ORIGIN: splenic artery (lienal artery)

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999

Components

intima; tunica intima tunica media vascular endothelium