Open AccessUnusual Course of Splenic Artery: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Hemamalini
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/14539.6622
Subject(s) - splenic artery , medicine , trunk , hilum (anatomy) , dissection (medical) , pancreas , spleen , splenectomy , abdomen , cadaver , radiology , surgery , biology , ecology
Splenic artery is the largest branch from the celiac trunk. It is remarkably tortuous in its course before it enters the hilum of the spleen. During routine dissection of abdomen for undergraduate students in a 60-year-old male cadaver, we observed an unusual course and tortuosity in the splenic artery. Knowledge of such unusual tortuous splenic artery is important in partial or total splenectomy, splenic aneurysum, splenic embolisation and surgeries related to pancreas, stomach.