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DUODENUM

RELATIONS

FIRST PART
Anterior – Quadrate lobe of the liver

Posterior – Portal vein, gastroduodenal artery, and bile-duct.


The vena cava is behind these.

Superior - Epiploic foramen and hepatic artery (horizontal


part)

Inferior - Head of the pancreas


SECOND PART
Anterior - Gall-bladder, transverse colon, and small gut
Posterior - Rt. Renal vessels, the pelvis and surrounding areas
of the rt.kidney
Right - Hepatic flexure of the colon
Left - Head of the pancreas. It is pierced about the
middle by the bile
and pancreatic ducts.
THIRD PART
Anterior - Superior mesenteric vessels, the root of the
mesentery, the transverse colon and mesocolon
Posterior - Inferior vena cava, aorta, gonadal vessels of both
sides, the left sympathetic trunk, and the left psoas
Superior - Head of the pancreas
Inferior - Small gut
FOURTH PART

Anterior- Transverse mesocolon, and transverse colon


Posterior - Left psoas major, left sympathetic trunk, left renal and
testicular vessels and inferior mesenteric artery
Superior - Pancreas
Inferior - Jejunum
Right - Aorta
Left - Left Kidney
and ureter
ARTERIAL SUPPLY
• Derived from coeliac trunk:
Superior pancreaticoduodenal (branch of
gastroduodenal which in turn is a branch of
hepatic artery)
• Derived from Superior mesenteric artery:
Inferior pancreaticoduodenal
• Additional supply from:
Supraduodenal/ Right gastric/ Right
gastroepiploic arteries
Venous drainage
• Splenic
• Superior mesenteric
• Some veins directly in to portal vein
Lymphatic drainage
• Pancreaticoduodenal nodes
nodes Pyloric Hepatic Coeliac
• Lower down: to preaortic lymph node around superior
mesenteric artery
• Nerve supply
• Coeliac plexus- Gets sympathetic component from
both greater splanchnic nerves & branches from
both the vagus nerves
Duodenal cap

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