Hepatic artery proper

The hepatic artery (liver artery) is the artery that supplies blood to the liver. It is the continuation of the common hepatic artery after the departure of the gastroduodenal artery and runs in hepatoduodenal ligament. They sent the artery gastric artery to the small curvature of the stomach, divides within the liver or shortly before her in two main branches on: the ramus dexter ( right branch ) and ramus sinister ( left branch ). Sometimes there is a separate ramus intermedius to the quadrate lobe of the liver. The gallbladder artery (arteria cystica ) is normally out of the ramus from dexter.

The common hepatic artery in turn originates from the celiac trunk and thus the abdominal aorta.

Source

• Schiebler, Schmidt, Zilles: Anatomy: cytology, histology, development history, macroscopic and microscopic anatomy of man. ( 7th edition ) Springer, Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-540-61856-2.

• Artery of the abdominal cavity
• Liver