Author/Authors :
Gholami Farashahi، Mohammad Sadegh نويسنده Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Gholami Farashahi, Mohammad Sadegh , Mohammadi، Amir Hossein نويسنده PhD student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran , , Abolhasani، Farid نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Introduction: The brachial plexus is responsible for the innervation to the upper limb and some
parts of the thorax. Variations in the branching of the brachial plexus are common and have been
reported in 65.3% of the population. The variations (Atypical communication) of brachial plexus
have significant clinical and surgical importance. Methods: In this study 10 upper limbs which belonged to 5 adult human cadavers of known sex
are used. Results: In the present study, three cases (in two cadavers) of 10 cases (in five cadavers) have
connections between the musculocutaneous and median nerve and seven cases are normal. Conclusion: Knowledge about the connections between the musculocutaneous nerve and the
median nerve could be very useful in surgical operations on the humerus bone and shoulder joint.
So, the more information we could collect about these structures and their variations, the safer the
surgical operations could be done.
