Flashcards in Aorta Deck (58)
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What is the most common descriptive word for the splenic artery?
Tortuous
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What is the first branch of the aorta seen with US?
Celiac axis
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Which vessel is usually hard to see when looking at the transverse prox AO?
Left Gastric Artery
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What vessel originates from the celiac axis and is very tortuous?
Splenic artery
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What is the name of the vessel that comes off the celiac axis and is not usually seen with US?
Left gastric artery
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The name of the vessel on the anterior border of the pancreas is the
Splenic artery
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What are the two branches of the common hepatic artery?
Proper Hepatic Artery and Gastroduodenal Artery
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T or F? Another name for the adrenal arteries is gonadal arteries.
False
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What vessel courses between the SMA and the AO?
Left renal vein
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The renal arteries are best seen on what scan plane?
Transverse
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What is the relationship of the SMA to the celiac axis?
Inferior
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The two main anatomy structures that the SMA and IMA feed are the
Colon and intestines
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What is the name of the most inferior artery that branches off the aorta?
Median sacral
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What are the three vessels that branch off the celiac axis?
Splenic artery, common hepatic artery, left gastric artery.
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When does the thoracic aorta become the abdominal aorta?
As it passes posteriorly to the diaphragm
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What does the left gastric artery supply?
The left side of the lesser curvature of the stomach
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The left gastric artery courses ______ and to the ______, and doubles back to supply the left side of the lesser curvature of the stomach.
Superiorly, left
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The splenic artery supplies the (3)
Spleen, pancreas, left side of the greater curvature of the stomach
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The splenic artery courses _____ to the _____ with a slight _____ to _____ angulation.
Horizontally, left, inferior-to-superior
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The CHA courses _____ to the _____ and branches into the _____ and the _____.
Horizontally, right, gastroduodenal artery, proper hepatic artery
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The GDA courses _____ and supplies the _____ and the _____.
Inferiorly, right side of the greater curvature of the stomach, pancreatic duodenal area
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The proper hepatic artery courses _____ and branches into the _____, _____, and _____ _____ _____ which supply the _____.
Superiorly, right, middle, left hepatic arteries, liver
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The right hepatic artery branches into the _____, which feeds the _____.
Cystic artery, gallbladder
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Suprarenal arteries are also called
Adrenal arteries
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Suprarenal arteries branch from the _____ aspect of the _____, from the level of the _____ and _____, and course _____ to the adrenal glands.
Lateral, aorta, celiac axis, SMA, horizontally
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The SMA is _____ to the celiac axis and courses _____ and _____ and divides into several arteries that supply the largest portion of the _____ and the _____, and part of the _____.
Inferior, anterior, inferior, small intestine, ascending colon, transverse colon
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Which renal artery has the longer course and why?
Right renal artery, bc the AO sits on the left side.
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The renal arteries branch ____ and supply the ____
Horizontally, kidneys
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The right renal artery courses _____ to the IVC to reach the right kidney.
Posteriorly
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