Anatom3DMedial sural cutaneous nerve
Nervus cutaneus surae medialis · Vnitřní kožní nerv lýtka
Nervous system
Looks like
A skin branch of the tibial nerve running down the middle of the back of the calf between the two heads of gastrocnemius.
What it does
Joins the fibular communicating branch to form the sural nerve; brings feeling from the back of the calf.
Keeping it well
Rarely injured alone; relevant in calf surgery and sural nerve biopsy.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Compartment syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Growing pains
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Lymphangitis
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies