ArticleAnatomy & cell biology2019
A multiply split femoral nerve and psoas quartus muscle.
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- Psoas Quartus and Femoral Nerve Branching: A Case Report and Potential Clinical Implications.The American journal of case reports · 2025Article
- The effect of preoperative ultrasound localization on the incidence of infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve injury after hamstring tendon harvesting.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Femoral nerve palsy following Girdlestone resection arthroplasty: An observational cadaveric study.World journal of orthopedics · 2024Article
- Reappraisal of anatomical diversity of lateral circumflex femoral artery with its substantial clinical applicability: cadaveric study.Anatomy & cell biology · 2024Article
- Infrapatellar Branch of the Saphenous Nerve: Therapeutic Approaches to Chronic Knee Pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- The Association between Anatomical Variants of Musculoskeletal Structures and Nerve Compressions of the Lower Limb: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The ascending branch of the lateral circumflex femoral artery penetrating the posterior division of the femoral nerve.Anatomy & cell biology · 2021Article
- Femoral nerve split with variant iliacus muscle: a potential source of femoral nerve entrapment.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2020Article
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Abstract
The femoral nerve is the largest branch of the lumbar plexus. It is normally composed of the ventral rami of spinal nerves L2 to L4. The psoas major has proximal attachments onto the T12 to L5 vertebrae and related intervertebral discs, fuses with the iliacus deep to the inguinal ligament and then attaches onto the lesser trochanter of the femur. Normally, the anatomical relationship is that the femoral nerve is located between the iliacus and psoas major. Herein, we report a case of the psoas quartus muscle related to several splits of the femoral nerve within the pelvis. Although the embryology for this is unclear, surgeons and physicians should be aware of such anatomical variants in order to better understand pain and entrapment syndromes and during surgical maneuvers in this region such as lateral transpsoas approaches to the lumbar spine.
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