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Postfixed lumbosacral plexus with split L5 ventral ramus and furcal nerve arising from L5
T Decater1, J Iwanaga2, M Loukas3
1Department of Anatomical Sciences, St. George's University, St. George's, Grenada, West Indies.
Abstract:
Variations of the peripheral nerve plexuses are important to those clinicians who diagnose and treat patients with pathology of their parts. During routine dissection, a postfixed lumbosacral plexus with a furcal nerve arising from L5, not L4, was discovered. In addition, the case was found to have a split L5 ventral ramus. Such a variation might become clinically significant during clinical presentations of radiculopathy. With a better understanding of the fucal nerve variation presented here, along with previously documented variations, the diagnostic and treatment procedures for atypical radiculopathy can be refined, reducing the rates of nerve injury and failed back surgery.
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