LYMPHATICS OF THE KIDNEY 



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along the course of the splenic vessels. In addition to the spleen they drain the 

 fundus of the stomach and a part of the pancreas. 



Fig. 578. — Lyjiphatics of the Small Intestine. (After Toldt, "Atlas of Human Anatomy," 



Rebman, London and New York.) 



The Lymphatics of the Excretory Organs and of the Suprarenal 



The lymphatics of the kidney. — The lymphatic vessels from the deep capsular 

 and parenchymatous lymphatics of the kidney run to the nodes of the lumbar 

 chain (fig. 583). On the right side, part of the nodes concerned lie ventral and 



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