Hidaka Anetai, Kounosuke Tokita, Ryuhei Kojima, Yukio Aizawa, Ikuo Kageyama, Katsuji Kumaki
The course of the superior gluteal artery (SGA) as it passes through the lumbosacral plexus is variable. The variations of the arterial course in relation to the lumbosacral plexus have focused on statistical analysis, and it is limited arterial diversity. In this study, we investigated the positional relation between the SGA and the furcal nerve (FN): guide to segmentation of the lumbosacral plexus, arising from the L4, ie, the contribution to the femoral nerve, obturator nerve, and lumbosacral trunk. We could classify the pathway of the SGA into three types based on its positional relation to the FN...
2017: Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica