Visceral abdominal lymph nodes

Looks like

Nodes along the arteries of the gut organs: the stomach, bowel, liver, pancreas and spleen.

What it does

Filter lymph from the digestive organs; the gut nodes also carry absorbed fat.

Keeping it well

Cancers of the stomach, bowel and pancreas spread through them in order, which guides surgery and staging.

Its parts

• Pyloric nodes
• Superior mesenteric nodes
• Coeliac nodes
• Hepatic nodes
• Pancreatic nodes
• Intermediate lumbar nodes
• Inferior mesenteric nodes
• Right gastric nodes
• Right gastro-omental nodes
• Splenic nodes
• Pancreaticoduodenal nodes

Related conditions

• Testicular cancer