From left, left gastric a. branch off celiac trunk along lesser curvature. Each creates arcades which give off anterior and posterior gastric branches, which anastamose. These also anastamose with short gastric aa., which branched off splenic artery to fundus. The splenic vein receives the short gastric veins and may receive both left and right gastroepiploic veins, though the right gastroepiploic vein usually drains into the superior mesentaric vein. There is no celiac vein.
Veins freely anastamose.
In presenting this case at rounds, you need to review the arterial circulation of the stomach prior for a surgical procedure. Define the anatomy of the stomach and discuss the blood supply to this organ. It lies under the ribs and costal cartilages that form the left costal margin. After receiving food from the esophagus via the cardiac sphincter, it mechanically and chemically partially digests it. This chyme aliquots to the duodenum via the pyloric sphincter.