Florida State University

Hepatic portal vein—carries venous blood to the liver from the abdominal portion of the GI tract, spleen and the pancreas. Splenic vein. Courses posterior to pancreas, inferior to splenic artery. Following splenic vein to the right it joins the SMV—origin of the hepatic portal vein (ascends in the hepatoduodenal ligament to the porta hepatis) ................
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