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Profunda femoris artery



Artery: Profunda femoris artery
The profunda femoris artery, femoral artery and their major branches - right thigh, anterior view. (Femoral profunda labeled at right center.)
Structures surrounding right hip-joint. (Femoral profunda not labeled, but is visible near center right.)
Latin arteria profunda femoris
Gray's subject #157 629
Source femoral artery
Branches Lateral femoral circumflex
Medial femoral circumflex
Perforating
Vein profunda femoris vein
Dorlands/Elsevier a_61/12155579

The profunda femoris artery (also known as the deep femoral artery, or the deep artery of the thigh) is a branch of the femoral artery that, as its name suggests, travels more deeply (posteriorly) than the rest of the femoral artery.

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Structure

The profunda femoris branches off the femoral artery soon after its origin. It travels down the thigh closer to the femur than the femoral artery, running between the pectineus and the adductor longus, and running on the posterior side of adductor longus. The deep femoral artery does not leave the thigh.

Branches

The profunda femoris gives off the following branches:

  • Lateral femoral circumflex artery
  • Medial femoral circumflex artery
  • Perforating arteries - perforate the adductor magnus muscle to the posterior and lateral compartments of the thigh.

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See also

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List of arteries of lower limbs
EI: Femoralsuperficial epigastric - superficial iliac circumflex - external pudendal (superficial, deep/anterior scrotal arteries) - profunda femoris (lateral circumflex femoral, medial circumflex femoral, perforating) - descending genicular
Poplitealanterior tibial - sural
genicular: superior genicular (medial, lateral) - middle genicular - inferior genicular (medial, lateral)
Anterior tibialdorsalis pedis: tarsal (lateral - medial) - arcuate - dorsal metatarsal/first dorsal metatarsal - deep plantar

tibial recurrent (posterior, anterior)

anterior malleolar (medial, lateral)
Posterior tibialcircumflex fibular - fibular
medial plantar - lateral plantar (plantar arch, plantar metatarsal)
 
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