Vessels of the Abdomen

Question 1

What are the six arteries of the parietal abdomen?

Answer 1

Musculophrenic, superior epigastric, inferior phrenic, inferior epigastric, lumbar and median sacral aa.

Question 2

What are the five major arteries of the visceral abdomen?

Answer 2

Celiac trunk, superior and inferior mesenteric, gonadal and renal aa.

Question 3

Foregut

Answer 3

Inferior half of the esophagus, stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas and proximal half of the duodenum.

Question 4

Midgut

Answer 4

Distal half of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, cecum, ascending colon, hepatic flexure and proximal ⅔ of the transverse colon

Question 5

Hindgut

Answer 5

Distal ⅓ of the transverse colon, splenic flexure, descending colon, sigmoid colon and rectum

Question 6

What are the three major branches of the celiac trunk?

Answer 6

Splenic a. (tortuous), left gastric a. and common hepatic a.

Question 7

What are the two branches of the common hepatic a.?

Answer 7

Proper hepatic a. and gastroduodenal a.

Question 8

What are the branches of the proper hepatic a.?

Answer 8

Left hepatic and right hepatic (cystic) aa.

Question 9

Branches of the SMA

Answer 9

Branches of the SMA and ileocolic, right colic and middle colic aa.

Question 10

Branches of the IMA

Answer 10

Left colic a., sigmoid branches and superior rectal a.

Question 11

Blood supply- midgut

Answer 11

SMA

Question 12

Blood supply- foregut

Answer 12

Celiac trunk

Question 13

Blood supply- hindgut

Answer 13

IMA

Question 14

What are the three major veins that form the portal vein?

Answer 14

Superior mesenteric v., splenic v., portal v.

Question 15

What is the path of blood from the portal vein to the heart?

Answer 15

Portal vein, hepatic sinusoids, hepatic veins, IVC, right atrium