Arteria thoracica superior

Branches of the axillary artery

The arteria thoracica superior ("upper thoracic artery ") is an artery of the trunk. It arises variably, mostly from the axillary artery . It supplies the subclavius ​​muscle , the intercostal muscles of the first two intercostal spaces , the pectoral muscles and the serratus anterior muscle .

literature

• Wolfgang Dauber: Feneis' picture lexicon of anatomy. 9th, completely revised edition. Georg Thieme, Stuttgart et al. 2004, ISBN 3-13-330109-8 , p. 254.