Anterior tibial artery This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Anterior_tibial_artery".
The anterior tibial artery of the lower limb carries blood to the anterior compartment of the leg and dorsal surface of the foot, from the popliteal artery.
It is accompanied by a deep vein, the anterior tibial vein, along its course.
It crosses the anterior aspect of the ankle joint, at which point it becomes the dorsalis pedis artery.
The branches of the anterior tibial artery are:
Right knee-joint. Posterior view.
Cross-section through middle of leg.
Anterior tibial artery and the muscles and bones of the leg - anterior view of right leg.
external pudendal: superficial – deep (anterior scrotal)
profunda femoris: lateral circumflex femoral (descending, transverse, ascending) – medial circumflex femoral (ascending, superficial, deep, acetabular) – perforating
anterior malleolar (medial, lateral)
