Anatom3DRight lateral tarsal artery
Arteria tarsalis lateralis dextra · Pravá boční zánártní tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A branch of the dorsalis pedis artery that runs outward across the top of the midfoot under the short toe extensor.
What it does
Supplies the tarsal bones and the extensor digitorum brevis, and joins nearby arteries.
Keeping it well
Mainly a surgical landmark in midfoot operations.
Related conditions
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Compartment syndrome
- Growing pains
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Lymphangitis
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Venomous snakebite