- Branch of Coeliac Artery
- Course:
- Passes to the left
- Tortuous
- Crests of its waves appear above the Pancreas
- From the middle part, may give off a Posterior Gastric Artery to the stomach, which raises a fold of the parietal peritoneum called the Gastrosplenic Ligament, as it arches forwards towards the Stomach
- Runs across the Left Crus and Left Psoas to the hilum of the Left Kidney
- Turns forward in the Splenorenal Ligament to the hilum of the Spleen
- Gives off 6 Short Gastric Arteries, which run in the Gastrosplenic Ligament
- Gives off the Left Gastroepiploic Artery – runs to the right in the Greater Omentum
- Gives branches to the Stomach and Omentum
- Breaks up into terminal splenic branches
- Branches:
- Posterior Gastric Artery
- Short Gastric Arteries
- Left Gastroepiploic Artery
