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Circumflex fibular artery

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Blood vessel
Circumflex fibular artery
Major arteries of the leg - posterior view (circumflex fibular artery is not labeled, but region is visible)
Details
SourcePosterior tibial artery
SuppliesKnee and some surrounding muscles
Identifiers
Latinramus circumflexus fibularis arteriae tibialis posterioris
TA98A12.2.16.056
TA24722
FMA43918
Anatomical terminology[edit on Wikidata]

The circumflex fibular artery (circumflex fibular branch, circumflex branch of posterior tibial artery, or circumflex peroneal branch of posterior tibial artery) is a branch of the posterior tibial artery which supplies blood to the knee.

The artery branch of the anterior tibial artery, at its initial (or superior) segment, winds around the neck of the fibula and joins patellar network.

References

  1. ^ "circumflex fibular artery". Farlex. Retrieved June 18, 2013.

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Arteries of the human leg
Inferior epigastric
Deep circumflex iliac
  • no major branches
Femoral
In femoral canal
Descending genicular
  • saphenous branch
  • articular branches
Deep femoral artery
Popliteal
Genicular
Sural
  • no major branches
Anterior tibial
Tibial-fibular (Tibial-peroneal) trunk
Arches


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