Artery Splenic Accessory

The splenic accessory artery is an artery that arises from the abdominal aorta. Its name, the splenic aorta, serves to distinguish it from another artery arising from the abdominal aorta, which is called the portal artery.

If you carry out a word orientation from the beginning of the abdominal aorta to the exit of the splenic artery, you will notice two ligations from the small artery. The upper one is called Torui's ligation - from it in the upper part of the abdomen the descending aorta goes up the abdominal wall. The lower one is called the “Mercurian” or Lussi ligation - from it the descending branch of the aorta runs down the abdominal wall (indicated by symbols in the form of a small arc with a lower line).

Anatomically, the first artery branches near a point just below the navel and on its way up to the lumbar region (or whatever below, it all depends on the person) it crosses the 7 upper lumbar (L1 - L7), the last 3 sacral (S1 - S3) and even possibly 2 coccygeal (Co1, Co2) vertebrae. After the artery has crossed these structures, it turns briefly into the gluteal region and then moves with amazing speed to the suprapubic region. Following the direction of the uterus and its