Esophageal_veins Knowpia

Esophageal veins
Esophageal veins
Details
Artery	Esophageal artery
Identifiers
Latin	venae oesophageales
TA98	A12.3.04.011; A12.3.07.006
TA2	4751
FMA	70834
	Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The esophageal veins drain blood from the esophagus to the azygos vein, in the thorax, and to the inferior thyroid vein in the neck. It also drains, although with less significance, to the hemiazygos vein, posterior intercostal vein and bronchial veins.^{[citation needed]}

In the abdomen, some drain to the left gastric vein which drains into the portal vein.^[1]^[2]

References edit

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

^ Daniel J Bell; Henry Knipe; et al. "Azygos venous system | Radiology Reference Article | Radiopaedia.org". radiopaedia.org. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
^ Daniel J Bell; Henry Knipe; et al. "Oesophagus | Radiology Reference Article | Radiopaedia.org". radiopaedia.org. Retrieved 2018-12-03.

Histology image: 49_08 at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
largeintestine at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (portalsystem)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080506103555/http://www.med.mun.ca/anatomyts/digest/avein6.htm