Pudendal plexus
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| Nerve: Pudendal plexus | ||
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| Plan of sacral and pudendal plexuses. | ||
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| Latin | plexus pudendalis | |
| Gray's | subject #213 966 | |
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The pudendal plexus is a plexus of nerves in the pelvis that is generally considered to be the lower part of the sacral plexus.
It specifically refers to the part of the sacral plexus that gives off the following nerves:
- Perforating cutaneous nerve
- Pudendal nerve
- Visceral branches
- Muscular branches
- Anococcygeal nerve
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lumbar plexus: iliohypogastric - ilioinguinal - genitofemoral (femoral branch/lumboinguinal, genital branch) - lateral cutaneous of thigh (patellar) - obturator (anterior, cutaneous, posterior, accessory) - femoral (anterior cutaneous branches, saphenous)
sacral/coccygeal plexus: to quadratus femoris - to obturator internus - to the piriformis - superior gluteal - inferior gluteal - posterior cutaneous of thigh (inferior cluneal, perineal branches)
sciatic: tibial (medial sural cutaneous, sural, medial calcaneal, medial plantar, lateral plantar) - common fibular (lateral sural cutaneous, deep fibular, superficial fibular, medial dorsal cutaneous, intermediate dorsal cutaneous)
pudendal plexus: perforating cutaneous - pudendal (dorsal of the penis/clitoris, inferior anal, perineal and posterior scrotal/labial) - anococcygeal
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