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401.A patient complained of severe abdominal pain on several occasions,
butnocause could be identified. She was recently diagnosed with vasculi-
tis of small and medium muscular blood vessels (polyarteritis nodosa) so
you ordered an abdominal arteriogram to determine whether there were
abdominal vascular changes that would explain her abdominal pain. On
her arteriogram there is a tortuous vessel indicated by the arrow. What is
this vessel?


Abdomen 507

a. Left gastric artery
b. Superior mesenteric artery
c. Splenic artery
d. Right gastric artery
e. Right gastro-omental artery

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