Research Article
Study of Sural Nerve Complex in Human Cadavers
Table 1
Formation of sural nerve.
| | Author | Number of cases | Typical sural formation | MSCN as SN | LSCN as SN |
| | Bardeeen (1907) [8] | 76 | 59.2% | 39.4% | 1.3% | | William (1954) [3] | 257 | 83.7% | 15.9% | 0.4% | | Huelke (1958) [5] | 198 | 80.3% | 19.2% | 0.5% | | Ortiguela et al. (1987) [6] | 20 | 80% | 20% | — | | Coert and Dellon (1994) [15] | 50 | 96% | 4% | — | | Uluutku et al. (2000) [7] | 40 | 77.5% | 12.5% | — | | Mestdagh et al. (2001) [11] | 37 | 67.6% | 24.3% | 8.1% | | Mahakkanukrauh and Chomsung (2002) [16] | 76 | 67.1% | 24.3% | — | | Ugrenovic et al. (2005) [12] | 100 | 58.5% | 32.2% | — | | Aktan Ikiz et al. (2005) [14] | 30 | 60% | 16.7% | — | | Sekiya et al. (2006) [10] | 31 | 74.2% | 16.1% | — | | Pyun and Kwon (2008) [17] | 26 | 76.9% | 15.4% | — | | Albay et al. (2012) [13] | 100 | 71% | 20% | — | | Our study | 100 | 60% | 39% | 1% |
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MSCN: medial sural cutaneous nerve; LSCN: lateral sural cutaneous nerve; SN: sural nerve.
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