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Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus III: Nervous System: Variations in Formation of Lumbosacral Plexus.

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

Variations in Formation of Lumbosacral Plexus.

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

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A: "High form of plexus: ventral aspect. From a subject in which the fifth lumbar vertebra was assimilated to the sacrum, and articulated on both sides with the ilium.

B: Low form of plexus: dorsal aspect. From a subject in which there were thirteen thoracic and five lumbar vertebrae."

From Eisler, P. Der Plexus lumbosacralis des Menschen. Halle 1892, in Quain's Anatomy. 11th Ed., Vol. III, Pt. II: The Peripheral Nerves and Sense Organs, edited by E.A. Schafer, J. Symington and T.H. Bryce. Longmans, Green, and Co., London,1915.

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