Anatom3DLeft lateral circumflex femoral artery
Arteria circumflexa femoris lateralis sinistra · Levá zevní tepna obkružující kost stehenní
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A branch of the deep femoral artery that runs outward under the sartorius and rectus femoris, splitting into up, across and down branches.
What it does
Supplies the front and outer thigh muscles and part of the hip.
Keeping it well
Its descending branch carries the anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap, a workhorse flap in reconstructive surgery.
Related conditions
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Erectile dysfunction
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)