Superior lateral genicular artery

Superior lateral genicular artery
	The femoral artery. (Lateral sup. genicular labeled at bottom left.)
	File:Gray552.png Circumpatellar anastomosis. (Latter superior genicular labeled at upper left, second from top.)
Details
Latin	arteria superior lateralis genus
Branches	superficial branch, deep branch
Identifiers
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The lateral superior genicular artery is a branch of the popliteal artery that supplies a portion of the knee joint.

Course

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 incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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