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Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus III: Nervous System: Variations in Course of Median Nerve at the Carpal Tunnel (continued)

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

Variations in Course of Median Nerve at the Carpal Tunnel (continued)

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

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10: High division of the median nerve with an accessory lumbrical muscle between the divided nerve.
11: "Accessory" median nerve branch proximal to the carpal tunnel perforating the transverse carpal ligament.
12: "Accessory" median nerve branch proximal to the carpal tunnel.
13: "Accessory" median nerve branch arising from the uInar side of the median nerve proximal to the carpal tunnel.
14: "Accessory" median nerve branch proximal to the carpal tunnel resulting in two nerves running through the transverse carpal ligament directly into the thenar musculature.
15: Incidence of the extraligamentous, subligamentous, and transligamentous course of the thenar (recurrent) branch of the median nerve.

Redrawn from Lanz, U. Anatomical variations of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel. J. Hand Surg. 2:44-53, 1977.

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