Key to Diagram:
First division - one branch:
(1) Supreme
Thoracic Artery
Second division - two branches:
(2) Thoracoacromial
(with four smaller branches)
A. Pectoral
Branch
B. Deltoid
Branch
C. Acromial
Branch
D. Clavicular
Branch
(3) Lateral
Thoracic Artery
Third division - three branches:
(4) Subscapular
Artery (branches to the Circumflex Scapular
Artery and
the Thoracodorsal Artery)
(5)
Anterior Humeral Circumflex Artery
(6) Posterior Humeral Circumflex
Artery (which passes through the
quadrangular space)
Reference Netter Plates 398 and 405.