A treatise on the anatomy, pathology and surgical treatment of aneurism / by Antonio Scarpa ; translated from the Italian, with notes, by John Henry Wishart.

  • Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832.
Date:
1808
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Credit: A treatise on the anatomy, pathology and surgical treatment of aneurism / by Antonio Scarpa ; translated from the Italian, with notes, by John Henry Wishart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    forming arches of communication between the supe- rior and inferior articular arteries of the knee. It is likewise proper to remark, that in some subjects, a second superior internal articular artery is met with, but when it does exist, it is much smaller than the first; it is sometimes distributed wholly to the perios- teum covering the posterior and lower surface of the thigh-bone, and to the sheaths of the semimembranosus, seminervosus, and sartorius muscles; and sometimes it runs on the inner side of the knee, and joins the vas- cular plexus formed by the superior and inferior arti- cular arteries. § 13. The inferior internal articular artery arises from the popliteal artery, low down in the cavity of the ham, and frequently, by a common trunk, with the arteries proper to the muscles of the calf of the leg. The inferior internal articular artery runs obliquely from above, downwards, and from behind, forwards, between the gastrocnemius and popliteus muscles. It ascends on the head of the tuberosity of the tibia, covered by the tendons of the semimembranosus, semi- nervosus, and sartorius muscles, as well as by the in- ternal lateral ligament of the knee. There, after having given small twigs to the popliteus muscle, to the posterior crucial ligament, and to the capsular liga- ment, the inferior internal articular artery is reflected from below, upwards upon the tibia, and forms a vascular plexus, which extends a good way on the liga- ment of the patella, and upon the patella itself, anasto- mosing in several places with the superior internal arti cular artery, and with the articular arteries of the opposite side, or the external arteries of the knee. §14. The superior external articular artery arises