Cutaneous Branch of the Spinal Accessory Nerve: Case Report With Potential Relevance to Occipital Neuralgia

We describe a case in which a cutaneous branch was found arising from the spinal accessory nerve, a nerve typically characterized as a purely motor nerve. Although reported anatomical variations of the lesser occipital and spinal accessory nerves are uncommon, rare variants have been reported. Such...

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Autores principales: Patel, Aditi, Watson, Caroline, Olewnik, Łukasz, Iwanaga, Joe, Tubbs, R. Shane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Pain Management
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8487268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646706
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17666
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author Patel, Aditi
Watson, Caroline
Olewnik, Łukasz
Iwanaga, Joe
Tubbs, R. Shane
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description We describe a case in which a cutaneous branch was found arising from the spinal accessory nerve, a nerve typically characterized as a purely motor nerve. Although reported anatomical variations of the lesser occipital and spinal accessory nerves are uncommon, rare variants have been reported. Such anatomy might result in unexpected patient presentations or rare complications following spinal accessory nerve injury.
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spelling pubmed-84872682021-10-12 Cutaneous Branch of the Spinal Accessory Nerve: Case Report With Potential Relevance to Occipital Neuralgia Patel, Aditi Watson, Caroline Olewnik, Łukasz Iwanaga, Joe Tubbs, R. Shane Cureus Pain Management We describe a case in which a cutaneous branch was found arising from the spinal accessory nerve, a nerve typically characterized as a purely motor nerve. Although reported anatomical variations of the lesser occipital and spinal accessory nerves are uncommon, rare variants have been reported. Such anatomy might result in unexpected patient presentations or rare complications following spinal accessory nerve injury. Cureus 2021-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8487268/ /pubmed/34646706 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17666 Text en Copyright © 2021, Patel et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Cutaneous Branch of the Spinal Accessory Nerve: Case Report With Potential Relevance to Occipital Neuralgia
title Cutaneous Branch of the Spinal Accessory Nerve: Case Report With Potential Relevance to Occipital Neuralgia
title_full Cutaneous Branch of the Spinal Accessory Nerve: Case Report With Potential Relevance to Occipital Neuralgia
title_fullStr Cutaneous Branch of the Spinal Accessory Nerve: Case Report With Potential Relevance to Occipital Neuralgia
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous Branch of the Spinal Accessory Nerve: Case Report With Potential Relevance to Occipital Neuralgia
title_short Cutaneous Branch of the Spinal Accessory Nerve: Case Report With Potential Relevance to Occipital Neuralgia
title_sort cutaneous branch of the spinal accessory nerve: case report with potential relevance to occipital neuralgia
topic Pain Management
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8487268/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17666
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