Common hepatic artery

Common hepatic artery
	Branches of the celiac artery - stomach in situ. (Hepatic artery is visible at upper left.)
	3D-rendered computed tomography, showing common hepatic artery in center
Details
Latin	arteria hepatica communis
Source	celiac artery
Branches	hepatic artery proper; Right gastric artery; gastroduodenal artery
Identifiers
Dorlands; /Elsevier	a_61/12154478
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The common hepatic artery is a short blood vessel that supplies oxygenated blood to the liver, pylorus of the stomach, duodenum and pancreas.

It arises from the celiac artery and has the following branches:

Branch	Details
hepatic artery proper	supplies the gallbladder via the cystic artery and the liver via the left and right hepatic arteries
gastroduodenal artery	branches into the right gastroepiploic artery and superior pancreaticoduodenal artery
Right gastric artery	branches to supply the lesser curvature of the stomach inferiorly

Additional images

Anatomy photo:38:03-0204 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: Contents of the Hepatoduodenal ligament"
celiactrunk at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)