Editing Pancreas (section)

== '''Venous drainage''' ==

* Typically mimics arterial     supply
* ASPDV usually drains into     right gastro-epiploic vein
* PSPDV usually drains into PV
* Inferior pancreaticoduodenal     veins are somewhat variable in number and mode of drainage - often brought     into view, and are troublesome, when dissecting uncinate process free of     SMV
* Middle colic vein drains into     SMV at about the point that SMV passes behind the neck of the pancreas,     and is thus a useful guide to SMV location
* Inferior pancreatic vein     accompanies the artery of the same name along the inferior edge of the     pancreas posteriorly.
* Variable number of unnamed     smaller veins, which are easily torn when dissecting spleen from pancreas.     These veins nearly always enter the superior or anterior aspect of the     splenic vein, so that the posterior and inferior aspects are relatively     free of tributaries (other than SMV).
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