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Blood travels to the kidney via the renal arteries. These arteries branch off the abdominal aorta at the level the intervertebral disc between L1 and L2 vertebrae.

The renal arteries enter the kidney at the hilum and branch off into different segments that do not usually connect or anastomose.

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