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Splenic vein
| Vein: Splenic vein |
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| Transverse section of the spleen, showing the trabecular tissue and the splenic vein and its tributaries. |
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| The portal vein and its tributaries. (Spleen is at far right, and "lienal vein" is visible traveling from it to the left.) |
| Latin |
vena lienalis |
| Gray's |
subject #174 681 |
| Drains from |
trabecular vein of spleen |
| Source |
short gastric veins, left gastroepiploic vein, pancreatic veins, inferior mesenteric vein |
| Drains to |
hepatic portal vein |
| Artery |
splenic artery |
| MeSH |
Splenic+Vein |
In anatomy, the splenic vein (in the past called the lienal vein) is the blood vessel that drains blood from the spleen.
It joins with the superior mesenteric vein, to form the hepatic portal vein and follows a course superior to the pancreas, along side of the similarly named artery, the splenic artery.
It collects branches from the stomach and pancreas and most notably from the large intestine, which is drained by the inferior mesenteric vein and joins with splenic vein shortly before it forms the portal vein.
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Veins of the torso |
| Coronary |
coronary sinus (great cardiac, left marginal, small cardiac, middle cardiac, posterior of the left ventricle, oblique of the left atrium) • anterior cardiac (right marginal) • pulmonary |
Thorax/
SVC |
brachiocephalic: inferior thyroid - thymic - internal thoracic (anterior intercostal, superior epigastric) - left superior intercostal - supreme - vertebral - internal jugular - subclavian (axillary: lateral thoracic, thoracoepigastric) - pericardiacophrenic
azygos: right superior intercostal - bronchial - intercostal/posterior intercostal 5-11 - accessory hemiazygos/hemiazygos - superior phrenic |
| Vertebral column |
vertebral venous plexuses (external, internal) • spinal (posterior, anterior) • basivertebral • intervertebral |
Abdomen/
IVC |
to IVC (some to renal vein on left): inferior phrenic - hepatic - suprarenal - renal - gonadal (ovarian ♀/testicular ♂, pampiniform plexus ♂) - lumbar - common iliac
to azygos system: ascending lumbar (subcostal) |
| Pelvis/common iliac |
median sacral vein
external iliac: inferior epigastric - deep circumflex iliac vein
internal iliac - posterior: iliolumbar - superior gluteal - lateral sacral
internal iliac - anterior: inferior gluteal - obturator - uterine ♀ (uterine plexus ♀) - vesical (vesical plexus, prostatic plexus ♂, deep of penis ♂/clitoris ♀, posterior scrotal ♂/labial ♀) - vaginal plexus/vein ♀ - middle rectal - internal pudendal (inferior rectal, bulb of penis ♂/vestibule ♀) - rectal plexus |
Portal system/
portal vein |
splenic: short gastric - left gastroepiploic - pancreatic - inferior mesenteric (superior rectal, left colic)
superior mesenteric: right gastroepiploic - pancreaticoduodenal - jejunal - ileal - middle colic - right colic - ileocolic (appendicular)
direct (cystic, left gastric/esophageal, right gastric, paraumbilical) |
| fetal |
ductus venosus • umbilical |
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Splenic_vein". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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