Circumflex artery of the scapulae
The circumflex artery scapulae (Latin for artery that encompasses the shoulder blade) is an artery of the arm . It arises in the axilla from the subscapular artery and runs through the medial axillary gap to the infraspinate fossa of the shoulder blade . There it anastomoses with the arteria suprascapularis and forms with it the scapular plexus ( rete scapulare ).
The circumflex artery scapulae supplies the shoulder blade muscles. When the axillary artery is closed, the rete scapulare enables the formation of a collateral circulation .
Individual evidence
- ↑ FCAT - Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology: Terminologia Anatomica. Thieme, Stuttgart et al. 1998, ISBN 3-13-114361-4 .
literature
- Walther Graumann, Dieter Sasse (Ed.): Sensory systems, skin, CNS. Peripheral pathways (= Compact Anatomy Textbook. Vol. 4). Schattauer, Stuttgart et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7945-2064-5 , p. 563.