Anatom3DSural communicating branch of common fibular nerve
Ramus communicans fibularis · Lýtková spojka společného lýtkového nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
A branch from the common fibular nerve behind the knee that joins the medial sural cutaneous nerve to form the sural nerve.
What it does
Brings feeling fibres from the outer back of the calf into the sural nerve.
Keeping it well
Its size varies a lot between people; it matters mainly when surgeons harvest the sural nerve for grafts.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- 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
- Piriformis syndrome
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sciatica
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies