Superficial course of the medial plantar nerve: case report
- Author:
Gil Bon KOO
1
;
Jae Ho LEE
;
Ji Hoon JANG
;
In Hwan SONG
;
Joo Young KIM
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Tibial nerve; Medial plantar nerve; Abductor hallucis muscle; Flexor digitorum brevis; Variation
- MeSH: Aged; Cadaver; Humans; Male; Metatarsal Bones; Tibial Nerve; Toes
- From:Anatomy & Cell Biology 2019;52(1):87-89
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: The medial and lateral plantar nerves are branched from the tibial nerve and move to the tip of the toes. A variation of medial plantar nerve was found on the left side of a 78-year-old Korean male cadaver. The tibial nerve was divided into the lateral and medial plantar nerves beneath the plantar flexor. The medial plantar nerve passed deep to plantar aponeurosis and superficial to the flexor digitorum brevis. It gave off a common plantar digital nerve and then divided into three proper plantar digital nerves near the metatarsal bases. In this article, we report a superficial course of the medial plantar nerve and describe its unique morphology and discuss the clinical significance of this variation.
