Subscapular artery
Template:Use American English Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:More footnotes Template:Main other Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherTemplate:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The subscapular artery, the largest branch of the axillary artery,[1] arises from the third part of the axillary artery at the lower border of the subscapularis muscle, 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 dorsal scapular artery (a.k.a. deep branch of the transverse cervical artery if it arises from the cervical trunk), and ends in the neighboring muscles.
About 4 cm from its origin it gives off two branches, first the scapular circumflex artery and then the thoracodorsal artery.
From the thoracodorsal artery, it supplies latissimus dorsi, while the scapular circumflex artery participates in the scapular anastamosis. It terminates in an anastomosis with the dorsal scapular artery.[2]
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References
Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from Template:Wikidatathe 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918) Template:Main other
External links
- Illustration at microsurgeon.org
- Photo at mvm.ed.ac.uk
- lesson3axillaryart&vein at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
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