Tags: Anatomical Structure, Artery.
The left gastro-omental artery (or left gastroepiploic artery) the largest branch of the splenic artery runs from left to right about a finger’s breadth or more from the greater curvature of the stomach between the layers of the greater omentum and anastomoses with the right gastroepiploic (a branch of the right gastro-duodenal artery originating from the hepatic branch of the Coeliac trunk).In its course it distributes: Gastric branches: several ascending branches to both surfaces of the stomach; Omental branches: descend to supply the greater omentum and anastomose with branches of the middle colic.
