Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus III: Nervous System: Plexuses
Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed
The hypogastric branch may supply the pyramidalis muscle and may be joined with the twelfth thoracic nerve.
The iliohypogastric nerve is sometimes derived from the twelfth thoracic nerve and may also receive a root from the eleventh thoracic nerve.
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