Anatomical variation in the formation of the median and musculocutaneous nerves.
Abstract
Between the median and musculocutaneous nerves are established communications that determine variations in the formation of both neural structures. The knowledge of them is of fundamental importance in clinical and surgical practice, in the presence of diseases or trauma of the axillary or brachial arteries and whose intervention resulting in compromise of these neural elements. We present a case of abnormality in the formation of the median and musculocutaneous nerves, which determined the establishment a variable communication between both terminals trunks.
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