Superior suprarenal artery

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Artery: Superior suprarenal artery

Posterior abdominal wall, after removal of the peritoneum, showing kidneys, suprarenal capsules, and great vessels.
Latin	arteriae suprarenales superiores
Supplies	adrenal gland
Source	inferior phrenic artery
Vein	suprarenal veins
Dorlands / Elsevier	a_61/12156173

Each (left and right) superior suprarenal artery is a branch of the inferior phrenic artery on that side of the body. The left and right phrenic arteries supply the diaphragm, and come off the aorta.

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SUNY Figs 40:02-05 - "The suprarental glands. Blood supply to the suprarenal glands."

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AA:
Anterior

celiac	left gastric: esophageal branches splenic: pancreatic branches (greater, dorsal) – short gastric – left gastro-omental common hepatic: proper hepatic (cystic), right gastric, gastroduodenal (right gastro-omental, superior pancreaticoduodenal, supraduodenal)

SMA	inferior pancreaticoduodenal – intestinal (jejunal, ileal, arcades, vasa recta) – ileocolic (colic, anterior cecal, posterior cecal, ileal branch, appendicular) – right colic – middle colic

IMA	left colic – sigmoid – superior rectal – marginal