lateral superior genicular artery

It passes above the lateral condyle of the femur.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} It runs deep to the tendon of the biceps femoris.{{Cite book |last=Sinnatamby |first=Chummy |title=Last's Anatomy |publisher= |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-7295-3752-0 |edition=12th |pages=134}}

It divides into a superficial and a deep branch; the superficial branch supplies the vastus lateralis, and anastomoses with the descending branch of the lateral femoral circumflex and the lateral inferior genicular arteries; the deep branch supplies the lower part of the femur and knee-joint, and forms an anastomotic arch across the front of the bone with the highest genicular and the medial inferior genicular arteries.

File:Thigh arteries schema.svg|Schema of the arteries arising from the external iliac and femoral arteries.

• Patellar anastomosis

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