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Lateral inferior genicular artery

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Lateral inferior genicular artery
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The lateral inferior genicular is an artery of the leg.

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Course

It runs lateralward above the head of the fibula to the front of the knee-joint, passing in its course beneath the lateral head of the gastrocnemius, the fibular collateral ligament, and the tendon of the biceps femoris.

Branching

It ends by dividing into branches, which anastomose with the Inferior medial genicular and superior lateral genicular arteries, and with the anterior recurrent tibial artery.

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References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 633 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


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