Vasculature of hand

Question 1

What are the arteries of the hand?

Answer 1

Superficial palmar arch
deep palmar arch
dorsal intercarpal arterial arch
princeps pollicis arch

Question 2

What does the superficial palmar arterial arch give rise to?

Answer 2

3 common palmar digital arteries - gives rise to proper palmer digital arteries

Question 3

What does the proper palmer digital arteries supply?

Answer 3

digits on their side of each digit

Question 4

what supplies the superficial palmar arch?

Answer 4

mostly ulner artery

Question 5

What is the supply of the common palmar digital arteries in 50% of people?

Answer 5

the superficial palmar arch is absent in ~50% of people and the common palmar digits rise of the ulnar artery

Question 6

What does the deep palmar arch supply?

Answer 6

palmar metacarpal arteries

Question 7

What does the deep palmar arteries arise from?

Answer 7

more from radial, less from ulnar

Question 8

What does the palmar metacarpal arteries anatomies with?

Answer 8

common palmar digital arteries

Question 9

Where does the dorsal inter carpal arterial arch arise?

Answer 9

radial artery

small arch

Question 10

what artery does the dorsal inter carpal arterial arch anastomose with?

Answer 10

ulnar artery

Question 11

What does the deep inter carpal arterial arch supply?

Answer 11

dorsal metacarpal arteries which help supply digits on the radial and ulnar sides by supplying proximal digits

Question 12

What does the radial artery split into?

Answer 12

dives deep to 1st dorsal interroseous artery and divides into terminal princeps pollicis A and deep palmar arterial arch

Question 13

What is the course of princeps pollicis?

Answer 13

ascends thumb and gives rise to radialis indices artery (lateral side of the second digit)

Question 14

What is the venous drainage of the palm?

Answer 14

begin the cephalic and basilica veins