Anatom3DLateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve
Nervus cutaneus antebrachii lateralis · Zevní kožní nerv předloktí
Nervous system
Looks like
The skin continuation of the musculocutaneous nerve, emerging at the outer elbow beside the cephalic vein.
What it does
Brings feeling from the skin of the outer forearm.
Keeping it well
Can be irritated by blood draws or cannulas at the elbow crease or wrist, giving outer forearm tingling.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shoulder dislocation
- Tetanus
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies