"The left gastric vein begins as small venous branches draining the anterior and posterior walls of the lesser curvature of the stomach 5. The left gastric vein then ascends along the lesser curvature of the stomach within the lesser omentum (specifically the hepatogastric ligament) to the oesophageal hiatus where it anastomoses with the oesophageal veins 5. The vessel then descends along the gastropancreatic fold draining into the portal vein at the superior border of the pancreas1."
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"Origin and course"