Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus II: Cardiovascular System: Arteries: Abdomen: Variations in Branches of Celiac Trunk: Right Gastric Artery

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus II: Cardiovascular System: Arteries: Abdomen: Variations in Branches of Celiac Trunk

Right Gastric Artery

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
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The most frequent origin of the right gastric artery is the proper hepatic artery (~ 53%); the common hepatic, near its point of division (~20%); or from the left hepatic branch (~15%). In some cases it arose as a branch of the gastroduodenal (~8%), or as a branch of the common hepatic (~4 %).

Daseler et al. (1947) provide the following concise summary:

Origin of right gastric artery: 250 cases; proper hepatic, 125; left hepatic, 81; gastroduodenal, 33; right hepatic, 10; celiac, 1.

Image 19, Image 338

Posterior Gastric

Image 269, Image 430

Gastroduodenal

Image 17, Image 101, Image 108, Image 337

References

Daseler, E.H., Anson, B.J., Hambley, W.C. and A.F. Reimann. (1947) The cystic artery and constituents of the hepatic pedicle. A study of 500 specimens. Surg., Gynecol and Obstet. 85:47-63.

Eckmann, von I. und V. Krahn. (1984) Studies concerning the frequency of the different possibilities of the origin of the right gastric artery. Anat. Anz. 155:65-70.

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