A 16-year-old boy with a ruptured spleen comes to the emergency department for splenectomy. Soon after ligation of the splenic artery just distal to its origin, a surgi- cal resident observes that the patient is heal- ing normally. Normal blood flow would occur in which of the following arteries?
(A) Short gastric arteries
(B) Dorsal pancreatic artery
(C) Inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery
(D) Left gastroepiploic artery
(E) Artery in the lienorenal ligament
Answer: (C) Inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery
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