plantar artery


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plantar artery

The medial or the lateral plantar artery.
See also: artery
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Revascularization of digit ulcers by the "dorsalis pedis" or the plantar artery was considered as DR.
Results of infrapopliteal endovascular procedures performed in diabetic patients with critical limb ischemia and tissue loss from the perspective of an angiosome-oriented revascularization strategy
Mourougayan [13] advocates the use of the medial plantar artery instep flap as it can be raised as an island fasciocutaneous flap based on medial plantar vessels, with the branch of the medial plantar nerve supplying the instep skin and reaching the posterior-most part of the weightbearing surface of the heel with ease.
Sensate free radial forearm flap reconstruction to the instep following recurrent plantar fibromatosis: a case report
Blood supply arose from the posterior medial and the medial plantar artery. Peritendinous blood vessels penetrated the tendon and anastomosed with the longitudinally oriented intratendinous network.
Foot and Ankle International: "Blood Supply of the Flexor Hallucis Longus Tendon with Regard to Dancer's Tendinitis: Injection and Immunohistochemical Studies of Cadaver Tendons."
The lateral plantar artery passes obliquely across the sole of the foot forming the plantar arterial arch that is completed by a deep branch from the dorsalis pedis artery (Standring; Moore et al, 2010; Kelikian & Sarrafian, 2011).
The Anatomy of the Plantar Arterial Arch/Anatomia del Arco Plantar Arterial

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