Common hepatic artery

Common hepatic artery
Not to be confused with Hepatic artery proper.
Artery: Common hepatic artery
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Branches of the celiac artery - stomach in situ. (Hepatic artery is visible at upper left.)
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3D-rendered computed tomography, showing common hepatic artery in center
Latin arteria hepatica communis
Gray's subject #154 603
Source celiac artery   
Branches hepatic artery proper
Right gastric artery
gastroduodenal artery
Common hepatic artery

In anatomy, the common hepatic artery is a short blood vessel that supplies oxygenated blood to the liver, pylorus (a part of the stomach), duodenum (a part of the small intestine) and pancreas.

It arises from the celiac artery and has the following branches:

Branch Details
hepatic artery proper supplies the gallbladder via the cystic artery and the liver via the left and right hepatic arteries
gastroduodenal artery branches into right gastro-omental artery and superior pancreaticoduodenal artery

Additional images

  • The celiac artery and its branches; the stomach has been raised and the peritoneum removed.

  • The portal vein and its tributaries.

  • Abdominal portion of the sympathetic trunk, with the celiac and hypogastric plexuses.

  • Horizontal disposition of the peritoneum in the upper part of the abdomen.

  • Common hepatic artery

  • Proper hepatic artery

See also

External links

v · d · eList of arteries of torso – abdomen (TA A12.2.12–15, GA 6.598)
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Parietal
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common hepatic
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common iliac
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accompanying of ischiadic nerve · crucial anastomosis
Posterior
see arteries of lower limbs

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