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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.[citation needed] It runs deep to the tendon of the biceps femoris.[1]

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)


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