title: Surgical and ethnic anatomy of the relationships between the small saphenous vein and the common peroneal and tibial nerves in adult males.
abstract: A comparative analysis of the measurements of the distances between the small saphenous vein and the common peroneal and tibial nerves at the back of the knee was performed in melanodermal and leukodermal male adults. The positions in which the vein lies ore closely to the nerves are stressed and should be considered as critical in possible surgical damage to the nerves during saphenectomy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010543:Peroneal Nerve / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D013979:Tibial Nerve / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D044465:White People