Gastric lymph nodes
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| Lymph: Gastric lymph nodes | |
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| Lymphatics of stomach, etc. | |
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| Lymphatics of stomach, etc. The stomach has been turned upward. | |
| Latin | nodi lymphoidei gastrici |
| Gray's | subject #180 706 |
| Drains to | celiac lymph nodes |
The gastric lymph nodes consist of two sets, superior and inferior.
- The Superior Gastric Glands (lymphoglandulæ gastricæ superiores) accompany the left gastric artery and are divisible into three groups, viz.:
- (a) upper, on the stem of the artery;
- (b) lower, accompanying the descending branches of the artery along the cardiac half of the lesser curvature of the stomach, between the two layers of the lesser omentum;
- c) paracardial outlying members of the gastric glands, disposed in a manner comparable to a chain of beads around the neck of the stomach. They receive their afferents from the stomach; their efferents pass to the celiac group of preaortic glands.
- The Inferior Gastric Glands (lymphoglandulæ gastricæ inferiores; right gastroepiploic gland), four to seven in number, lie between the two layers of the greater omentum along the pyloric half of the greater curvature of the stomach.
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 Visceral Nodes of the Abdominal Cavity |
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