profunda femoris artery
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The profunda femoris artery (also known as the deep femoral artery or deep artery of the thigh) is a branch of the common femoral artery and is responsible for providing oxygenated blood to the deep structures of the thigh, including the femora.
Summary
- origin: common femoral artery
- main branches
- medial circumflex femoral artery
- lateral circumflex femoral artery
- 3 x perforating arteries
- termination: within the thigh as the terminal perforating artery (4perforating artery)
- supply: deep tissues of the thigh
- variants:
- absence
- duplication
- additional branches
- varied perforating branch number
Origin
Posterolateral aspect of the common femoral artery at the upper part of the femoral triangle, 2-5 cm below the inguinal ligament
Course
At first lateral to the femoral artery, it then runs behind it and the femoral vein to the medial side of the femur, and passes downward behind adductor longus, ending in a small terminal branch that pierces adductor magnus.
Termination
At the lower third of thigh in terminal fourth perforating branch.
Branches
- lateral circumflex femoral artery
- medial circumflex femoral artery
- 1st-4th perforating arteries
- pass backwards through adductor muscles near linea aspera
- 1st above and 4th below adductor brevis, while the 2nd and 3rd perforators go through it
- muscular arteries
Relations
- posterior: iliacus, pectineus, adductor brevis, adductor magnus
- anterior: adductor longus
- lateral: origin of vastus medialis
Variants
- absence
- duplication
- additional branches
- variable site/side of origin of the medial and lateral femoral circumflex
- medial and lateral femoral circumflex originating from the femoral artery
- may arise or run anterior, lateral or medial to the femoral artery
- variable distance below the inguinal ligament of origin
Mnemonic
Mnemonic for the deep branches of the thigh:
Siehe auch:
- lateral circumflex femoral artery
- Arteria femoralis superficialis
- Arteria circumflexa femoris medialis
- Aneurysma spurium der Arteria profunda femoris
- Embolisation Arteria profunda femoris
und weiter:
Assoziationen und Differentialdiagnosen zu Arteria profunda femoris:
