title: A rare case of communicating branch between the posterior femoral cutaneous and the sciatic nerves.
abstract: During routine dissection of a 75-year-old male cadaver, we observed a communicating branch between the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve and the sciatic nerve. The connection was 11 cm below the infrapiriform foramen and was 3 cm long. Excluding this communicating branch, the origin, course and distribution of the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve showed no variation. The other branches of the sacral plexus were as usual.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. tunali@hacettepe.edu.tr
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tunali
authors.forename: Neslihan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cankara
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Albay
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005269:Femur / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000294:innervation* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012584:Sciatic Nerve / Q000473:pathology*