Subscapular artery

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Artery: Subscapular artery
Axillary artery and its branches - anterior view of right upper limb and thorax.
Latin	a. subscapularis
Gray's	subject #149
Supplies	Latissimus dorsi
Source	Axillary artery
Branches	circumflex scapular artery, thoracodorsal artery

The subscapular artery, the largest branch of the axillary artery, arises at the lower border of the Subscapularis, which it follows to the inferior angle of the scapula, where it anastomoses with the lateral thoracic and intercostal arteries and with the descending branch of the transverse cervical, and ends in the neighboring muscles. About 4 cm. from its origin it gives off a branch, the scapular circumflex artery.

[edit] Branches

• scapular circumflex artery
• thoracodorsal artery

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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)

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