Femoral artery and its branches (English)

The femoral artery continues from the external iliac artery after it passes the inguinal ligament. It gives off several branches, including the superficial epigastric, superficial circumflex iliac, superficial external pudendal, deep external pudendal, deep femoral and the descending genicular artery. The deep femoral artery in turn gives off the lateral and medial circumflex femoral arteries as well as the perforating femoral arteries. The femoral artery continues into the leg as the popliteal artery.