Anatom3DLeft posterior circumflex humeral artery
Arteria circumflexa humeri posterior sinistra · Levá zadní tepna obkružující kost pažní
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A larger axillary branch passing back with the axillary nerve through the quadrangular space around the neck of the humerus.
What it does
Supplies the deltoid, shoulder joint and most of the humeral head.
Keeping it well
Injured in shoulder fractures and dislocations along with the axillary nerve; overhead athletes can get aneurysms here.
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)