Gastric lymph nodes

• The superior gastric lymph nodes accompany the left gastric artery and are divisible into three groups:
• * Upper, on the stem of the artery;
• * Lower, accompanying the descending branches of the artery along the cardiac half of the lesser curvature of the stomach, between the two layers of the lesser omentum;
• * Paracardial outlying members of the gastric lymph nodes, disposed in a manner comparable to a chain of beads around the neck of the stomach. They receive their afferents from the stomach; their efferents pass to the celiac group of preaortic lymph nodes.
• The inferior gastric lymph nodes, four to seven in number, lie between the two layers of the greater omentum along the pyloric half of the greater curvature of the stomach.

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