Highest intercostal artery

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Artery: Highest intercostal artery
The thoracic aorta, viewed from the left side. (Highest intercostal artery labeled at upper right.)
Latin	arteria intercostalis suprema
Gray's	subject #148 585
Source	costocervical trunk
Vein	intercostal veins
Dorlands / Elsevier	a_61/12154668

The highest intercostal artery (supreme intercostal artery, superior intercostal artery) is an artery in the human body that usually gives rise to the first and second posterior intercostal arteries, which supply blood to their corresponding intercostal space. It usually arises from the costocervical trunk, which is a branch of the subclavian artery.

[edit] See also

• Supreme intercostal vein
• Superior intercostal vein
• Posterior intercostal veins

[edit] External links

• supreme+intercostal+artery at eMedicine Dictionary
• http://www.instantanatomy.net/thorax/vessels/aupperintercostalarteries.html

v • d • e List of arteries of torso - chest Pulmonary / coronary right coronary: SA nodal - AV nodal - atrial - right marginal - posterior interventricular left coronary: anterior interventricular - left circumflex (left marginal) Ascending aorta aortic arch - brachiocephalic (thyreoidea ima) - common carotid Subclavian internal thoracic: anterior intercostal - thymic - pericardiacophrenic - terminal (musculophrenic, superior epigastric) costocervical trunk: highest intercostal (posterior intercostal 1-2) - deep cervical Descending / thoracic aorta visceral: bronchial - esophageal - mediastinal parietal: posterior intercostal 3-11 - subcostal - superior phrenic