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common hepatic artery

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common hepatic artery,
the visceral branch of the celiac trunk of the abdominal aorta, passing posterior to the pylorus and dividing into five branches: the gastroduodenal, right gastric, right hepatic, left hepatic, and middle hepatic.


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Diagnostic angiography with selective common hepatic artery and superselective gastroduodenal artery angiograms showed extravasation of contrast medium into a 4-5 cm pseudoaneurysm arising from the proximal third of the gastroduodenal artery, approximately 4 cm from the origin.
The hepatic arterial anastomosis is typically an end-to-end fish-mouth anastomosis where the donor common hepatic artery and splenic artery branch point or the origin of the celiac artery with an aortic Carrel patch (small portion of the adjacent aorta surrounding the celiac artery origin) is connected to the recipient right and left hepatic artery bifurcation or the proper hepaticgastroduodenal artery bifurcation.
 
 
 
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