Surgical and anatomical landmarks for the perineal branch of the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve: Implications in perineal pain syndromes - Laboratory investigation

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 332-335

  Tubbs, R Shane ^a   Miller, Joseph ^b   Loukas, Marios ^c   Shoja, Mohammadali M ^e   Shokouhi, Ghaffar ^d   Cohen Gadol, Aaron A ^e  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Cadaver; Pain; Perineum; Skin; Thigh

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSECTION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; FLEXOR TENDON; HUMAN; ISCHIAL TUBEROSITY; LIGAMENT; MALE; NERVE; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; PAIN; PERINEAL PAIN SYNDROME; PERINEUM; POSTERIOR FEMORAL CUTANEOUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; SACROTOBEROUS LIGAMENT; SCROTUM; SKIN; SKIN NERVE; SPERMATIC CORD; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS; THIGH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEURALGIA; PERINEUM; SYNDROME;

EID: 68849129526     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.11.JNS081248     Document Type: Article

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