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Lateral superior genicular artery

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Blood vessel
Lateral superior genicular artery
The femoral artery. (Lateral sup. genicular labeled at bottom left.)
Circumpatellar anastomosis. (Latter superior genicular labeled at upper left, second from top.)
Details
BranchesSuperficial branch, deep branch
Identifiers
Latinarteria superior lateralis genus
TA98A12.2.16.034
TA24700
FMA22585
Anatomical terminology[edit on Wikidata]

The lateral superior genicular artery is a branch of the popliteal artery that supplies a portion of the knee joint.

Anatomy

Course and relations

It passes above the lateral condyle of the femur. It runs deep to the tendon of the biceps femoris.

Branches

It divides into a superficial and a deep branch; the superficial branch supplies the vastus lateralis, and anastomoses with the descending branch of the lateral femoral circumflex and the lateral inferior genicular arteries; the deep branch supplies the lower part of the femur and knee-joint, and forms an anastomotic arch across the front of the bone with the highest genicular and the medial inferior genicular arteries.

Additional images

  • Schema of the arteries arising from the external iliac and femoral arteries. Schema of the arteries arising from the external iliac and femoral arteries.

See also

References

  1. Sinnatamby, Chummy (2011). Last's Anatomy (12th ed.). p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7295-3752-0.

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 633 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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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