Cystic vein

Cystic vein
The portal vein and its tributaries.
Details
Drains from	gallbladder
Drains to	hepatic portal vein
Artery	cystic artery
Identifiers
Latin	vena cystica
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_05/12850070
TA	A12.3.12.012
FMA	15403
Anatomical terminology []

When present the cystic vein drains the blood from the gall-bladder, and, accompanying the cystic duct, usually ends in the right branch of the portal vein. It is usually not present, and the blood drains via small veins in the gall-bladder bed directly to the parenchyma of the liver.

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