Right gastric artery

Right gastric artery
The celiac artery and its branches; the stomach has been raised and the peritoneum removed. (Right gastric artery visible at center left.)
Right gastric artery is at #2 -- the lower of the two arrows.
Details
Source	Proper hepatic artery
Vein	Right gastric vein
Supplies	Stomach
Identifiers
Latin	arteria gastrica dextra
TA98	A12.2.12.028
TA2	4228
FMA	14776
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

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]}

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

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  The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed.
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  Right gastric artery

References

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

External links

• Anatomy photo:38:01-0102 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: The Right and Left Gastric Artery"
• Anatomy image:7886 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center
• Anatomy image:7898 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center
• celiactrunk at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)

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