Perforating cutaneous nerve

Perforating cutaneous nerve

Plan of sacral and pudendal plexuses.

Cutaneous nerves of the right lower extremity. Front and posterior views. (Perforating cutaneous nerve not labeled, but region visible.)
Details
From S2-S3,[1] Sacral plexus
Innervates gluteal sulcus
Identifiers
Latin nervus cutaneus perforans
TA A14.2.07.036
FMA 19040

Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The perforating cutaneous nerve is a cutaneous nerve that supplies skin over the gluteus maximus muscle.

Structure

The perforating cutaneous nerve arises from the sacral plexus. It pierces the lower part of the sacrotuberous ligament, and winds around the inferior border of the gluteus maximus. It supplies the skin covering the medial and lower parts of gluteus maximus.

The perforating cutaneous nerve may arise from the pudendal nerve. It is absent in approximately one third of people; its place may be taken by a branch from the posterior cutaneous nerve of thigh or by a branch from the third and fourth, or fourth and fifth, sacral nerves.

See also

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

  1. ↑ Adam Mitchell; Drake, Richard; Gray, Henry David; Wayne Vogl (2005). Gray's anatomy for students. Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone. p. 423. ISBN 0-443-06612-4.


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