Anatomic variant of the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve during the posterior approach to the humerus: a case report

Iatrogenic injury during the posterior approach to the humerus during operative fixation is not an uncommon occurrence. A comprehensive understanding of the normal anatomy and its variants is of paramount importance in order to avoid such injury. Typically, the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of t...

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Autores principales: Sun, Li, Park, Brian K, Gupta, Salil, Capo, John T, Yoon, Richard S, Liporace, Frank A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25972922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-015-0063-8
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author Sun, Li
Park, Brian K
Gupta, Salil
Capo, John T
Yoon, Richard S
Liporace, Frank A
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Park, Brian K
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description Iatrogenic injury during the posterior approach to the humerus during operative fixation is not an uncommon occurrence. A comprehensive understanding of the normal anatomy and its variants is of paramount importance in order to avoid such injury. Typically, the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve originates towards the distal end of the humerus at the inferior portion of the spiral groove. Here, we report an important variant of this nerve, which originated significantly more proximal than expected, further emphasizing the importance of identification, dissection and protection of the radial nerve and its major branches.
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spelling pubmed-44293432015-05-14 Anatomic variant of the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve during the posterior approach to the humerus: a case report Sun, Li Park, Brian K Gupta, Salil Capo, John T Yoon, Richard S Liporace, Frank A Patient Saf Surg Case Report Iatrogenic injury during the posterior approach to the humerus during operative fixation is not an uncommon occurrence. A comprehensive understanding of the normal anatomy and its variants is of paramount importance in order to avoid such injury. Typically, the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve originates towards the distal end of the humerus at the inferior portion of the spiral groove. Here, we report an important variant of this nerve, which originated significantly more proximal than expected, further emphasizing the importance of identification, dissection and protection of the radial nerve and its major branches. BioMed Central 2015-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4429343/ /pubmed/25972922 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-015-0063-8 Text en © Sun et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Case Report
Sun, Li
Park, Brian K
Gupta, Salil
Capo, John T
Yoon, Richard S
Liporace, Frank A
Anatomic variant of the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve during the posterior approach to the humerus: a case report
title Anatomic variant of the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve during the posterior approach to the humerus: a case report
title_full Anatomic variant of the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve during the posterior approach to the humerus: a case report
title_fullStr Anatomic variant of the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve during the posterior approach to the humerus: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Anatomic variant of the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve during the posterior approach to the humerus: a case report
title_short Anatomic variant of the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve during the posterior approach to the humerus: a case report
title_sort anatomic variant of the inferior lateral cutaneous branch of the radial nerve during the posterior approach to the humerus: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25972922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-015-0063-8
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