page_title: Left gastroepiploic artery
hierarchical_section_title: Left gastroepiploic artery
caption_attribution_description: The celiac artery and its branches
context_page_description: The 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.
  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.
context_section_description: The left gastroepiploic artery (or left gastro-omental 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.
caption: The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed. (Left gastroepiploic artery visible at lower right.)
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