[Anatomical and surgical study of the medial calcaneus branch of the tibial nerve].
To better understand the anatomical variations of the medial calcaneus branch, the tibia nerve were dissected in 20 ankles of fresh black African cadavres. The medial calcaneus branch which is a collateral branch of tibial nerve was constant. It was unique in 80% of cases and was detaching itself from the trunck of the tibial nerve ot the entrance of the calcaneal sulcus. It was in the form of two small nerves with point of departure from the common tibial nerve trunk. These anatomic constatations confronted with those published in literature permits us to understand the etiopathogenic aspects of certain neuropathies of the ankles. To add this they impose a certain order if precaution in the operational surgnical route of the posterior section of the ankle.
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Laboratoire d'Anatomie-Organogenèse, Faculté de Médecine, de Pharmacie et d'Odonto, Stomatologie, UCAD, Dakar, Sénégal. ndiay@refer.sn
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D000842:Ankle; D002102:Cadaver; D006801:Humans; D013979:Tibial Nerve / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000601:surgery*