Anatom3DLateral proper palmar digital artery of little finger
Arteria digitalis palmaris propria lateralis digiti minimi · Zevní vlastní dlaňová tepna malíku
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A thin artery running along the palm side of the little finger, on its ring-finger side.
What it does
One of the two arteries that feed the little finger to its tip.
Keeping it well
A finger survives with one of its two arteries; a cut finger with a pale, cold tip needs urgent hand surgery.
Related conditions
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Ganglion cyst
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)