Anatom3DPosterior root of posterior femoral cutaneous nerve
Radix posterior nervi cutanei femoris posterioris · Zadní kořen zadního kožního nervu stehenního
Nervous system
Looks like
The part of the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve formed from the back divisions of the first and second sacral nerves.
What it does
Contributes fibres for skin of the buttock and back of the thigh.
Keeping it well
Not examined on its own; it matters to anatomists describing the sacral plexus.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Neurogenic bladder
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Tetanus
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies