Authors: Sujit Kumar Tripathy Ramesh Kumar Sen Tarun Goyal
Publish Date: 2012/12/09
Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 169-170
Abstract
The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve usually passes beneath the inguinal ligament to supply the lateral part of the thigh During iliofemoral exposure the skin incision along the anterolateral part of the thigh should be slightly lateral and over the anterior aspect of the tensor muscle belly This minimises the cutaneous sensory loss by reducing the number of branches of the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh which have to be sacrificed for the exposure The tensor muscle is retracted laterally and the medial sheath of the tensor fascia along with the sartorius attachment on the anterior superior iliac spine is retracted medially protecting the major trunks of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve 2 None of our patients had any symptoms of lateral femoral cutaneous nerve injury
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