Pankreasarterien

Review of

proximal splenic artery embolization in blunt abdominal trauma. Schematic for the dorsal pancreatic (thin white arrow) to transverse pancreatic (thick white arrow) to great pancreatic artery (curved white arrow). Short black arrows denote the direction of flow. (Black star-coils in proximal splenic artery)

Review of

proximal splenic artery embolization in blunt abdominal trauma. Transradial splenic angiogram following splenic trauma. After proximal splenic artery embolization using coils (black star), flow from the proximal splenic artery (straight white arrow) to the distal splenic artery (curved white arrow) is maintained via dorsal pancreatic (straight thin black arrow) to transverse pancreatic (straight thick black arrow) to great pancreatic artery (curved black arrow) pathway

Review of

proximal splenic artery embolization in blunt abdominal trauma. 85 year old male with pancreatic cancer status post iatrogenic trauma following drain placement for a perisplenic abscess. Splenic artery DSA after embolization shows that the AMPLATZER™ Plug (white arrow) has mistakenly been placed distal to the great pancreatic artery (curved black arrow). This excludes collateral perfusion of the spleen via the dorsal pancreatic artery (straight thin black arrow) to transverse pancreatic (thick black arrows) to great pancreatic artery pathway