You are assisting the surgeon with a sleeve gastrectomy. The patient’s size and presence of adhesions make the procedure difficult. During exposure of the distal stomach, the vessel marked by the arrow in the image shown is cut. The patient starts to bleed profusely. Luckily the surgeon was able to apply a clip on the distal segment of the cut vessel, but the proximal segment cannot be found. The surgeon asks you to find the origin of this vessel, which is the?
A. Gastroduodenal artery
B. Common hepatic
C. Left gastric
D. Right gastroepiploic