| Artery: Superior lateral genicular artery | |
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| The femoral artery. (Lateral sup. genicular labeled at bottom left.) | |
| Circumpatellar anastomosis. (Latter superior genicular labeled at upper left, second from top.) | |
| Latin | arteria superior lateralis genus |
| Gray's | subject #159 633 |
| Branches | superficial branch, deep branch |
The lateral superior genicular is an artery of the leg.
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It passes above the lateral condyle of the femur, beneath the tendon of the Biceps femoris.
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.
This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.
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