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Perforating Cutaneous Nerve

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Abstract

This nerve, when present (64% of cases), arise from the second and third sacral nerves. Instead of piercing the sacrosciatic ligament, the nerve may accompany the pudendal nerve or pass between the ligament and gluteus maximus. It may be replaced by a branch of the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve or by the perforans coccygeus major, which arises from the third and fourth or the fourth and fifth sacral nerves. It is sometimes joined at its origin with the pudendal nerve.

This nerve, when present (64% of cases), arise from the second and third sacral nerves. Instead of piercing the sacrosciatic ligament, the nerve may accompany the pudendal nerve or pass between the ligament and gluteus maximus. It may be replaced by a branch of the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve or by the perforans coccygeus major, which arises from the third and fourth or the fourth and fifth sacral nerves. It is sometimes joined at its origin with the pudendal nerve.

Riferimenti dell’opera originale

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  • Cruveilhier, J. (1851) Traité d'Anatomie Descriptive, 3rd ed., G. Doin & Cie., Paris.
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  • Latarjet, A. (1948) Testut's Traité d'Anatomie Humain, 9th ed., G. Doin & Cie., Paris.

Anatomical classification

Systems:
Nervous system

Content provenance

Translation

Italian translation of «Perforating Cutaneous Nerve — Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System» by Ronald A. Bergman, Adel K. Afifi, Ryosuke Miyauchi. Source: https://www.anatomyatlases.org/AnatomicVariants/NervousSystem/Text/PerforatingCutaneousNerve.shtml Original work distributed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.it). Translation by Redazione AIVA. Changes from the original: Traduzione italiana del testo originale inglese, che resta consultabile nella versione inglese di questa pagina. Il contenuto è stato riorganizzato nel formato scheda del portale (sintesi, testo, riferimenti) senza modificarne le affermazioni. Le figure non sono state copiate: sono collegate alla pagina d’origine. This publication is not approved or endorsed by the authors of the original work.

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