Median sacral vein

Median sacral vein
The iliac veins.
Details
Artery	Median sacral artery
Identifiers
Latin	vena sacralis mediana
TA98	A12.3.10.002
TA2	5022
FMA	77168
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The median sacral vein (or middle sacral veins) is a vein of the abdomen. It accompanies the median sacral artery along the front of the sacrum.^[1] It ends in the left common iliac vein. Sometimes, it ends in the angle of junction of the two common iliac veins.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 677 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

^ Kostov, Stoyan; Slavchev, Stanislav; Dzhenkov, Deyan; Stoyanov, George; Dimitrov, Nikolay; Yordanov, Angel (1 January 2021). "Median sacral artery anterior to the left common iliac vein: From anatomy to clinical applications. A report of two cases". Translational Research in Anatomy. 22: 100101. doi:10.1016/j.tria.2020.100101. ISSN 2214-854X.

To azygos system

To IVC or left renal vein

Unpaired

posterior:	iliolumbar superior gluteal lateral sacral
anterior:	inferior gluteal obturator uterine ♀ uterine plexus ♀ vesical vesical plexus prostatic plexus ♂ deep of penis ♂/clitoris ♀ posterior scrotal ♂/labial ♀ vaginal plexus/vein ♀ middle rectal internal pudendal inferior rectal bulb of penis ♂/vestibule ♀ rectal plexus

Splenic	short gastric left gastroepiploic pancreatic inferior mesenteric superior rectal left colic
Superior mesenteric	right gastroepiploic pancreaticoduodenal jejunal ileal middle colic right colic ileocolic appendicular
Direct	cystic left gastric/esophageal right gastric paraumbilical

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