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Question
A 54-year-old man with extensive, severe atherosclerosis sustains a thrombotic occlusion of the celiac trunk. The organs that receive their blood supply from this artery continue to function normally. Anastomoses between which of the following pairs of arteries would explain this phenomenon?
Options
- ALeft gastric artery and right gastric artery
- BLeft gastroepiploic artery and right gastroepiploic artery
- CProper hepatic artery and gastroduodenal artery
- DRight colic artery and middle colic artery
- ESuperior pancreaticoduodenal artery and inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery
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