Anatom3DAnterior tibial recurrent artery
Arteria recurrens tibialis anterior · Přední holenní zpětná tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A small branch of the anterior tibial artery that turns back upward beside the top of the shin bone.
What it does
Joins the network of arteries around the knee and feeds the tibialis anterior.
Keeping it well
Relevant in operations on the upper tibia and in anterior compartment syndrome.
Related conditions
- ACL & meniscus injury
- Baker's (popliteal) cyst
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Growing pains
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Reactive arthritis
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sepsis
- Septic arthritis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)