Anatom3DMedial crural cutaneous branches of saphenous nerve
Rami cutanei cruris mediales nervi sapheni · Vnitřní kožní větve bérce ze skrytého nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
Skin branches of the saphenous nerve along the inner shin.
What it does
Bring feeling from the skin of the inner lower leg.
Keeping it well
Can be damaged in varicose vein surgery, leaving inner shin numbness.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Fibromyalgia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies