KROK 1 2019 – Question 110 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy
A patient has a pancreatic tumor. During surgery it was accessed by making an opening through the lig. gastrocolicum, but in the process a vessel passing through this ligament was damaged. As a result the surgeon had to stop the bleeding from the following vessel:
- A. A. gastro-duodenalis
- B. A. gastrica sinister
- C. A. pancreatico-duodenalis superior
- D. A. gastroomentalis dexter
- E. A. gastrica dexter
Hint
Recall which vessels run inside the peritoneal fold connecting the stomach with the transverse colon, and along which curvature of the stomach they lie.
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