Aorticorenal plexus
- Philips Australia, Paid speaker at Philips Spectral CT events (ongoing)
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The aorticorenal plexus (plural: plexuses) is an autonomic nerve plexus and ganglia located in the upper abdomen and is an inferior perivascular extension of the larger coeliac plexus. Some descriptions separate the aortic and aorticorenal plexuses but they are considerably interconnected and considered the same plexus.
Summary
location: bilateral plexuses and ganglia lie on the upper abdominal aorta between the origins of the coeliac trunk and renal arteries
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origin:
preganglionic sympathetic fibres via the greater and lesser splanchnic nerves via the coeliac plexus as well as a direct contribution from the lesser splanchnic nerve
preganglionic parasympathetic fibres from the vagus nerves
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branches and supply: gives origin to a complex network of small branches which follow the renal artery branches and extends superiorly to the coeliac plexus, medially to the superior mesenteric plexus and laterally to the renal plexus
supplies the kidneys, abdominal aorta and gonads
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relations:
anterior: stomach, lesser sac, duodenum
posterior: renal arteries and abdominal aorta
superior: coeliac artery and coeliac plexus
medial: superior mesenteric artery and vein
-<p><strong>branches and supply</strong>: gives origin to a complex network of small branches which follow the renal artery branches and extends superiorly to the coeliac plexus, medially to the <a href="/articles/superior-mesenteric-plexus" title="Superior mesenteric plexus">superior mesenteric plexus</a> and laterally to the <a href="/articles/aorticorenal-plexus" title="Aorticorenal plexus">renal plexus</a></p>- +<p><strong>branches and supply</strong>: gives origin to a complex network of small branches which follow the renal artery branches and extends superiorly to the coeliac plexus, medially to the <a href="/articles/superior-mesenteric-plexus" title="Superior mesenteric plexus">superior mesenteric plexus</a> and laterally to the <a href="/articles/renal-plexus" title="renal plexus">renal plexus</a></p>
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