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A CASE REPORT OF BILATERAL HIGH DIVISION OF SCIATIC NERVE OF TWO DIFFERENT TYPES

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Sciatic nerve is the thickest nerve of the body arising from sacral plexus. The nerve emerges through greater sciatic foramen below the piriformis muscle and divides into tibial and common peroneal nerve in the popliteal region. During routine cadaveric dissection in Institute of Anatomy, Madurai Medical College, a rare variation of bilateral high division of sciatic nerve of two different types and also unilateral high origin of genicular branch from common peroneal nerve were found. Such high division of the sciatic nerve either unilateral or bilateral can  result in compression of the nerve and result in sciatica.

 


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