Objectives: Describe and identify the types of anatomic variants of the lateral circumflex femoral artery. Subjects and methodology: Crossectional description by the 60 dissections of the femoral specimens (includes 17 men and 13 women). Results: The lateral circumflex femoral artery has a common trunk between ascending branch and descending branch (transverse branch may be a division of ascending branch or branch to the common root) is derived from the profunda femoral artery 73.3% and the femoral artery 3.4%, when the lateral circumflex femoral artery has no common trunk, ascending or descending branch separated from the profunda femoral artery is dominant.