Anatom3DSuperior lateral brachial cutaneous nerve
Nervus cutaneus brachii lateralis superior · Horní zevní kožní nerv paže
Nervous system
Looks like
The skin branch of the axillary nerve, curling around the back edge of the deltoid.
What it does
Brings feeling from the skin over the lower deltoid (the 'regimental badge' area).
Keeping it well
Numbness of this patch after a shoulder injury points to axillary nerve damage.
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