What vein drains the lesser curvature of the stomach, and empties directly into the hepatic portal vein?
1 Answer
Mar 3, 2016
Left gastric vein and Right gastric vein.
Explanation:
The following diagram of stomach shows different part of stomach. Here we the lesser curvature of stomach :
The lesser curvature of the stomach is drained by the left and right gastric veins. See the following diagram.
Both of the left and right gastric veins, empty directly into the hepatic portal vein. As we can see from the following diagram, here the stomach is cut and removed for better view :
