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Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus III: Nervous System: Unusual Brachial Plexus Caused by Connective Tissue

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus III: Nervous System

Unusual Brachial Plexus Caused by Connective Tissue

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD

Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed


Apparent abnormality of the brachial plexus produced by its connective tissue wrapping (solid lines); the medial and posterior cords appeared to form a common trunk. The broken lines indicate that proper dissection of the connective tissue, without interrupting nerve fibers, resolved the plexus into a normal one. 1 is the upper trunk, dissectible into anterior and posterior elements; 2, the posterior division of the lower trunk; 3 is the lateral cord; 4 the radial nerve dissectible from the axillary nerve, 5; 6 is the medial cord, 7 the musculocutaneous nerve, 8 the ulnar nerve, and 9 the median nerve.

From Walsh, J. F.: Am. J. Med. Sci. 74:387 :1877.

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