A 43-year-old female cadaver showed a complete bilateral absence of the musculocutaneous nerve. The anterior compartment muscles of both arms were supplied by median nerve excepting the coracobrachialis which was innervated by a direct branch from the lateral cord of brachial plexus. The median nerve, after supplying the biceps and brachialis muscles, gave onto the lateral cutaneous nerve of th...

The axillary approach to brachial plexus blockade provides satisfactory anaesthesia for elbow, forearm, and hand surgery and also provides reliable cutaneous anaesthesia of the inner upper arm including the medial cutaneous nerve of arm and intercostobrachial nerve, areas often missed with other approaches. In addition, the axillary approach remains the safest of the four main options, as it do...

OBJECTIVE Total phalloplasty is rarely performed in children due to the mutilation involved and the dilemma concerning neophallic size in children. We present a musculocutaneous latissimus dorsi free transfer flap for total phalloplasty in children with difficult psychological problems. MATERIALS AND METHODS Total phalloplasty was performed in eight boys aged between 10 and 15 years. Indicati...

We report the case of an adult patient with neurophysiological evidence of persisting conduction block in the forearm segment of the left median nerve and absent responses from the sensory branch of the musculocutaneous nerve (MCN), which had developed during an episode of acute generalised varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection. Clinical manifestations of motor involvement in herpes zoster (HZ...

A rare case of pediatric brachial plexus laceration is presented. A five-year-old boy who sustained a sharp laceration on his right axillary region was immediately operated. The axillary artery, radial, ulnar and musculocutaneous nerve branches of the brachial plexus, and the lateral root of the median nerve were totally lacerated. The medial root of the median nerve was partially transected. A...

We report the case of an adult patient with neurophysiological evidence of persisting conduction block in the forearm segment of the left median nerve and absent responses from the sensory branch of the musculocutaneous nerve (MCN), which had developed during an episode of acute generalised varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection. Clinical manifestations of motor involvement in herpes zoster (HZ...

During the routine dissection of upper limbs of a Caucasian male cadaver, variations were observed in the brachial plexus. In the right extremity, the lateral cord was piercing the coracobrachialis muscle. The musculocutaneous nerve and lateral root of the median nerve were observed to be branching inferior to the lower attachment of coracobrachialis muscle. The left extremity exhibited the pas...