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Right gastroepiploic vein
Introduction
The right gastroepiploic vein (right gastroomental vein) receives branches from the greater omentum and from the lower parts of the antero-superior and posteroinferior surfaces of the stomach; it runs from left to right along the greater curvature of the stomach between the two layers of the greater omentum.
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