Thread by @ChaseSurgical

Superior Mesenteric Artery:

The SMA is the next of the splanchnic vessels,
Leaves aorta at L1, to it’s right SMV nestles,
Drops anteroinferiorly behind the neck of the pancreas,
Occlusion up here makes the whole small bowel gangrenous;

It’s branches are many, we’ll start from the top,
Pancreas gets a branch, acts as coeliac trunk prop,
Inferior pancreatico duodenal artery,
Adds to the pancreas and duodenal symphony;

Then jejunal branches, and ileal next,
And our friend ileocolic, which also supplies appendix;
Right and middle colic, gives Colon its blood and,
The watershed kept alive, by the marginal of Drummond;

So far coeliac axis and SMA done,
Leaving just the Hindgut, supplied by the last one,
These poems supposedly make anatomy harmonic,
Probably easier to remember if I made a mnemonic!

#SurgEd @drkeithsiau 😄

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