Anterior lateral malleolar artery

Anterior lateral malleolar artery
	Anterior tibial and dorsalis pedis arteries; (anterior lateral malleolar arterylabeled at bottom left.)
Details
Latin	Arteria malleolaris anterior lateralis
Source	Anterior tibial artery
Identifiers
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The anterior lateral malleolar artery (lateral anterior malleolar artery, external malleolar artery) is an artery in the ankle.

The anterior lateral malleolar artery a branch of the anterior tibial artery. It passes beneath the tendons of the extensor digitorum longus and fibularis tertius and supplies the lateral side of the ankle. It forms anastomoses with the perforating branch of the fibular artery, and with ascending twigs from the lateral tarsal artery.

References

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

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