Blood Distribution

Question 1

What are the branches of the subclavian artery?

Answer 1

• thyrocervical trunk
• vertebral artery

Question 2

what’s the border of the brachial artery?

Answer 2

lateral border of teres major

Question 3

what’s the border of the axillary artery?

Answer 3

clavicle - lateral border of teres major

Question 4

what’s the border of the subclavian artery?

Answer 4

clavicle

Question 5

What are the branches of the thyrocervical trunk?

Answer 5

• transverse cervical artery
• suprascapular artery

Question 6

what are the branches of the transverse cervical artery?

Answer 6

• superficial branch
• deep branch (dorsal scapular artery)

Question 7

What are the bounds of the first part of the axillary artery? how many branches come off this part of the axillary artery?

Answer 7

• between clavicle and pectoralis minor
• 1 branch

Question 8

What does the deep branch of the transverse cervical artery travel with?

Answer 8

dorsal scapular nerve

Question 9

What are the bounds of the second part of the axillary artery? how many branches come off this part of the axillary artery?

Answer 9

• below pectoralis minor
• 2 branches

Question 10

What are the bounds of the third part of the axillary artery? how many branches come off this part of the axillary artery?

Answer 10

• between pectoralis minor and teres major
• 3 branches

Question 11

What does the suprascapular artery travel with?

Answer 11

suprascapular nerve

Question 12

what does the suprascapular artery anastamose with in the region of the axillary artery?

Answer 12

subscapular artery

Question 13

what comes off the first part of the axillary artery? where does it go?

Answer 13

• supreme thoraslic artery (upper ribs)

Question 14

Where does the vertebral artery travel?

Answer 14

through the foramina of the transverse processes

Question 15

What branches come of the second part of the axillary artery? where do they go?

Answer 15

• thoracoacromial trunk (CPADS)
• lateral pectoral artery (lower ribs)

Question 16

What branches come of the third part of the axillary artery? where do they go?

Answer 16

• anterior humeral circumflex artery (around the humerous to deltoid and teres major)
• posterior humeral circumflex artery (around the humerous to deltoid and teres major)
• subscapular artery (branches off)

Question 17

What does CPAD stand for?

Answer 17

• clavicular branch
• pectoral branch
• acromial branch
• deltoid branch
  of the thyroacromial trunk

Question 18

what does the subscapular artery branch into? where do they go?

Answer 18

• circumflex scapular artery (subscapularis maybe?)
• thoracodorsal artery (to latissimus dorsi)