Which of the following is true about splenic artery?
Correct Answer: Gives short gastric arteries along the fundus
Description: Splenic artery branches from the celiac artery and follows a course superior to the pancreas.
Splenic artery gives off branches to the stomach and pancreas before reaching the spleen.
The short gastric artery is through the upper part of the greater curvature of stomach and fundus of the stomach.
Some other branches are: Branch to the pancreas, Left gastroepiploic, Posterior gastric.
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