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prepancreatic artery
Origin: dorsal pancreatic artery (left terminal branch)
Anastomosis:
-> forms an arterial arch with the anterior superior pancreatico- duodenal artery
Course:
-> often double; runs between the neck & uncinate process of the pancreas
Related
precuneus
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: prepancreatic artery
ORIGIN: dorsal pancreatic artery
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium