Because of an inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease) and a small bowel obstruction leading to bowel ischemia, an elderly woman requires bypass of her ileum and jejunum and is scheduled for a gastrocolostomy. The surgeon will ligate all aeries that send branches to the stomach. Which of the following aeries may be spared?: (A) Splenic aery, (B) Gastroduodenal aery, (C) Inferior pancreaticoduodenal aery, (D) Left gastroepiploic aery
Answer is C. The inferior pancreaticoduodenal aery does not supply the stomach. All the other aeries supply the stomach.