Variant slips of psoas and iliacus muscles, with splitting of the femoral nerve

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 401-404

  Spratt, Jonathan D ^a   Logan, Bari M ^a   Abrahams, Peter H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Femoral nerve; Iliacus; Psoas; Referred pain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE MALFORMATION; NERVE MALFORMATION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE;

FEMORAL NERVE; HIP; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; PAIN; PSOAS MUSCLES;

EID: 0029982957     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2353(1996)9:6<401::aid-ca8>3.0.co;2-d     Document Type: Article

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