Anterior medial malleolar artery

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Artery: Anterior medial malleolar artery
Anterior tibial and dorsalis pedis arteries. (Ant. med. malleolar visible at bottom right.)
Latin a. malleolaris anterior medialis
Gray's subject #160 635
Source anterior tibial artery
Dorlands/Elsevier a_61/12154961

The anterior medial malleolar artery (medial anterior malleolar artery, internal malleolar artery) arises about 5 cm. above the ankle-joint and passes behind the tendons of the Extensor hallucis longus and Tibialis anterior, to the medial side of the ankle, upon which it ramifies, anastomosing with branches of the posterior tibial and medial plantar arteries and with the medial calcaneal from the posterior tibial.

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Arteries of lower limbs edit

FEMORAL: superficial epigastric - superficial iliac circumflex - superficial external pudendal - deep external pudendal - profunda femoris (lateral femoral circumflex - medial femoral circumflex - perforating) - descending genicular | (Gray's s157)

POPLITEAL: anterior tibial - sural - superior genicular (medial, lateral) - middle genicular - inferior genicular (medial, lateral) | (Gray's s159)

ANTERIOR TIBIAL: dorsalis pedis - posterior tibial recurrent - fibular - anterior tibial recurrent - anterior medial malleolar - anterior lateral malleolar | (Gray's s160)

DORSALIS PEDIS: lateral tarsal - medial tarsal - arcuate - deep plantar | (Gray's s161)

POSTERIOR TIBIAL: fibular - medial plantar - lateral plantar - plantar arch - plantar metatarsal | (Gray's s162)