Anatomical variability of the left gastric artery and vein in newborn infants]

Structural variants of the left gastric artery (LGA) and left gastric vein (LGV) in newborns have been studied on 93 preparations of the stomach with ++extra-organic arteries and on 90 preparations of the stomach with ++extra-organic veins. There is certain correlation between the length of the trunk and character of branching of the LGA. A branch of the LGA, running to the posterior surface of the cardial part in the upper part of the gastric body, which is not described in the literature, has been found. Rather often in newborn children from the iliac trunk instead of the LGA, a left gastro-hepatic trunk has got off. The number of tributaries from the posterior surface of the gastric body to the LGV is found to be significantly greater than the number of tributaries from the anterior surface of the gastric body to this vein.