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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Anatomical variations of the human sural nerve and its role in clinical and surgical procedures
Clinical Anatomy, Volume 24, No. 2, Year 2011
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The sural nerve is the most commonly nerve used in nerve transplantation, and so the aim of this study was to determine the variations of the sural nerve in the back of the leg, its relations to the calcaneal tendon and lateral malleolus, and determine the patterns of its distribution on the dorsum of the foot. Twenty-four Egyptian legs and feet were dissected. The results showed that the sural communicating nerve connected with the sural nerve in 87.5%. The predominant site of union between these two nerves was in the lower one-third of the leg and ankle region (62%). There was only one right leg that the sural nerve passed through the gastrocnemius. The small saphenous vein passed along the medial side of the sural nerve in 100%. The sural nerve crossed the lateral border of the calcaneal tendon in 50%. The distance between the sural nerve and insertion of calcaneal tendon was 16 + 7 mm in 91.7%. There were four types of pattern of innervation of the toes by the sural nerve. The predominant pattern was type I (45.8%), where the lateral side of the little toe was supplied by the sural nerve alone. The second pattern was type IV (29.2%), where the lateral 2 1/2 toes were supplied by the sural nerve alone. These findings are important for sural nerve biopsy and grafts, surgical repair of the calcaneal tendon, and regional anesthesia of the foot. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Authors & Co-Authors
Eid, Essam Mohammed
Egypt, Benha
Faculty of Medicine
Hegazy, Ahmed M.S.
Egypt, Benha
Faculty of Medicine
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Citations: 45
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1002/ca.21068
ISSN:
08973806
e-ISSN:
10982353
Research Areas
Health System And Policy