Sural nerve

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Nerve: Sural nerve

The small saphenous vein. (Sural nerve visible running vertically.)
Latin	nervus suralis
Gray's	subject #213 963
From	medial sural cutaneous
MeSH	Sural+Nerve
Dorlands/Elsevier	n_05/12566875

The sural nerve (short saphenous nerve), formed by the junction of the medial sural cutaneous with the peroneal anastomotic branch, passes downward near the lateral margin of the tendo calcaneus, lying close to the small saphenous vein, to the interval between the lateral malleolus and the calcaneus.

It runs forward below the lateral malleolus, and is continued as the lateral dorsal cutaneous nerve along the lateral side of the foot and little toe, communicating on the dorsum of the foot with the intermediate dorsal cutaneous nerve, a branch of the superficial peroneal.

In the leg, its branches communicate with those of the posterior femoral cutaneous.

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Diagram of segmental distribution of the cutaneous nerves of the right lower extremity. Front view.	Diagram of the segmental distribution of the cutaneous nerves of the right lower extremity. Posterior view.	Diagram of the segmental distribution of the cutaneous nerves of the sole of the foot.	Deep nerves of the front of the leg.
Nerves of the dorsum of the foot.

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