Inferior gluteal artery

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Artery: Inferior gluteal artery

Left gluteal region, showing surface markings for arteries and sciatic nerve.

Internal iliac artery and branches, including inferior gluteal artery.
Latin	arteria glutea inferior
Gray's	subject #155 620
Supplies	Gluteus maximus muscle, Piriformis muscle, Quadratus femoris muscle
Source	Internal iliac artery
Branches	Accompanying artery of ischiadic nerve
Vein	inferior gluteal veins
Dorlands/Elsevier	a_61/12154415

The inferior gluteal artery (sciatic artery), the larger of the two terminal branches of the anterior trunk of the internal iliac artery, is distributed chiefly to the buttock and back of the thigh.

It passes down on the sacral plexus of nerves and the Piriformis, behind the internal pudendal artery, to the lower part of the greater sciatic foramen, through which it escapes from the pelvis between the Piriformis and Coccygeus.

It then descends in the interval between the greater trochanter of the femur and tuberosity of the ischium, accompanied by the sciatic and posterior femoral cutaneous nerves, and covered by the Glutæus maximus, and is continued down the back of the thigh, supplying the skin, and anastomosing with branches of the perforating arteries.

Superior gluteal artery

The arteries of the gluteal and posterior femoral regions.

Dissection of side wall of pelvis showing sacral and pudendal plexuses.

Duke Orthopedics inferior_gluteal_artery
SUNY Figs 43:07-12 - "Sagittal view of the internal iliac artery and its branches in the female pelvis. "
Norman/Georgetown pelvis (pelvicarteries)

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