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The author has studied, in a group of 40 dissections on cadavers of individuals of different ages, the main “critical zones” of entrapment of some terminal branches of the lumbo-sacral plexus, which include canals (fibrous, osteo-fibrous, fibro-muscular), intervals (intermuscular, fibro-muscular, musculo-ligamentous), rings (fibrous or fibro-muscular) and foramina. They provide the topographical anatomical basis for possible compressive phenomena of the nerves of the lower limb.
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L'auteur a étudié sur 40 dissections cadavériques d'individus d'âges différents, les principales “zones critiques” d'étranglement de certaines branches terminales du plexus lombo-sacré, constituées de canaux (fibreux, ostéo-fibreux, fibro-musculaires) d'interstices (musculaires, fibro-musculaires, ligamento-musculaires), d'anneaux (fibreux, fibro-musculaires) et de trous. Elles représentent les bases anatomotopographiques d'èventuels phénomènes de compression des nerfs du membre inférieur.
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Peri, G. The “critical zones” of entrapment of the nerves of the lower limb. Surg Radiol Anat 13, 139–143 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01623889
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