Anatom3DLeft lateral thoracic artery
Arteria thoracica lateralis sinistra · Levá boční hrudní tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
An axillary branch running down the side of the chest along the lower border of the small chest muscle.
What it does
Supplies the side of the chest wall, serratus muscle and the outer breast.
Keeping it well
Tied off in armpit surgery for breast cancer; enlarged in breastfeeding.
Related conditions
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Takayasu arteritis
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)