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Posterior tibial recurrent artery

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Posterior tibial recurrent artery
Details
SourceAnterior tibial artery
Identifiers
Latinarteria recurrens tibialis posterior
TA98A12.2.16.044
TA24710
FMA43903
Anatomical terminology

The posterior tibial recurrent artery, an inconstant branch, is given off from the anterior tibial before that vessel passes through the gap between superior tibio-fibular joint and upper border of interosseous membrane.

It ascends in front of the Popliteus, which it supplies, and anastomoses with the inferior genicular branches of the popliteal artery, giving an offset to the tibiofibular joint.

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Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 635 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)