Anatom3DLateral superior genicular artery
Arteria superior lateralis genus · Horní zevní kolenní tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A branch of the popliteal artery curving round the outer side of the thigh bone just above the knee.
What it does
Supplies the outer knee and the kneecap region as part of the knee's arterial network.
Keeping it well
It is often cut when surgeons release the outer side of the kneecap; a source of bleeding after knee surgery.
Related conditions
- ACL & meniscus injury
- Baker's (popliteal) cyst
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Growing pains
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Reactive arthritis
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sepsis
- Septic arthritis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)