Anterior ulnar recurrent artery

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Artery: Anterior ulnar recurrent artery
Diagram of the anastomosis around the elbow-joint. (Anterior ulnar recurrent labeled at center right.)
Ulnar and radial arteries. Deep view. (Anterior ulnar recurrent labeled at center right.)
Latin	ramus anterior arteriae recurrentis ulnaris
Gray's	subject #152 596
Dorlands/Elsevier	r_02/12688721

The anterior ulnar recurrent artery arises immediately below the elbow-joint, runs upward between the Brachialis and Pronator teres, supplies twigs to those muscles, and, in front of the medial epicondyle, anastomoses with the superior and inferior ulnar collateral arteries.

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Arteries of upper limbsedit

AXILLARY: superior thoracic - thoracoacromial - lateral thoracic - subscapular (circumflex scapular - thoracodorsal) - anterior humeral circumflex - posterior humeral circumflex | (Gray's s149) BRACHIAL: profunda brachii (radial collateral, medial collateral) - superior ulnar collateral - inferior ulnar collateral | (Gray's s150) RADIAL: deep palmar arch - radial recurrent - superficial palmar arch - dorsal carpal - dorsal carpal network - dorsal metacarpal - princeps pollicis - radial of index finger - volar metacarpal | (Gray's s151) ULNAR: anterior ulnar recurrent - posterior ulnar recurrent - common interosseous - volar interosseous - posterior interosseous - interosseous recurrent - common volar digital | (Gray's s152)