Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
Dissection of stomach
Interior of stomach, anterior view
Image #142-6
KEYWORDS: Stomach.
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Dissection of stomach
Interior of stomach, anterior view
The anterior half of the stomach has been cut away.
- Margin of esophageal hiatus
- Caudate lobe of liver
- Proper hepatic artery (note hepatic plexus of nerves accompanying artery)
- Upper pointer: Portal vein Lower pointer: Common bile duct
- Body of pancreas
- Superior part of duodenum
- Descending part of duodenum
- Esophagus (left pointer, thoracic part; right pointer, abdominal part)
- Cardiac opening
- Fundus of stomach
- Spleen
- Muscular layer of stomach
- Gastric fold (lower part of this fold was removed in sectioning gastric wall)
- Canal of stomach
- Upper pointer: Muscular layer (circular fibers) Lower pointer: Submucosa of stomach
- Tail of pancreas
- Gastric fold
- Kidney (covered by renal fascia)
- Pyloric antrum
- Pyloric canal
- Upper pointer: Pyloric sphincter muscle Lower pointer: Pyloric opening
- Head of pancreas