Lateral pectoral nerve
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| Nerve: Lateral pectoral nerve | ||
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| Nerves of the left upper extremity. (Lateral anterior thoracic visible in upper right.) | ||
| [[Image:|250px|center|]] | ||
| Latin | n. pectoralis lateralis | |
| Gray's | subject #210 933 | |
| Innervates | pectoralis major | |
| From | lateral cord | |
| To | ||
| MeSH | [1] | |
The lateral pectoral nerve (lateral anterior thoracic) arises from the lateral cord of the brachial plexus, and through it from the fifth, sixth, and seventh cervical nerves.
It passes across the axillary artery and vein, pierces the coracoclavicular fascia, and is distributed to the deep surface of the Pectoralis major.
It sends a filament to join the medial anterior thoracic and form with it a loop in front of the first part of the axillary artery.
[edit] See also
[edit] Additional images
 Plan of brachial plexus. |
 Brachial plexus |
[edit] External links
- SUNY Labs 05:st-0506
- EatonHand ner-014
- Dictionary at eMedicine Lateral+pectoral+nerve
- Photo at mun.ca
- MedEd at Loyola grossanatomy/dissector/labs/ue/pect_scap/p2_1.html
This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated. Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to remove this notice when it is no longer relevant.
| Nerves of upper limbs (primarily): the brachial plexus |
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| supraclavicular: dorsal scapular - suprascapular - to the subclavius - long thoracic
infraclavicular: lateral cord: musculocutaneous (lateral cutaneous of forearm) - lateral pectoral - lateral head of median (anterior interosseous, palmar, common palmar digital, proper palmar digital) medial cord: medial pectoral - medial cutaneous of forearm - medial cutaneous of arm - ulnar (muscular branches, dorsal branch, palmar branch, superficial branch, deep branch) - medial head of median posterior cord: subscapular (upper, lower) - thoracodorsal - axillary (superior lateral cutaneous of arm) - radial (muscular, inferior lateral cutaneous of arm, posterior cutaneous of arm, posterior cutaneous of forearm, superficial branch, deep branch, posterior interosseous) |
- sv:Nervus pectoralis lateralis
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