The course of the inferior gluteal nerve and surgical landmarks for its localization during posterior approaches to hip

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 415-418

  Apaydin, Nihal ^a,b   Bozkurt, Murat ^c   Loukas, Marios ^b   Tubbs, R Shane ^d   Esmer, Ali F ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^c DISKAPI YILDIRIM BEYAZIT TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Gluteus maximus; Hip joint; Inferior gluteal nerve; Posterior approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; GREATER TROCHANTER; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; INFERIOR GLUTEAL NERVE INJURY; ISCHIAL TUBEROSITY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MORBIDITY; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BUTTOCKS; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 67650905001     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-008-0459-6     Document Type: Article

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