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Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus III: Nervous System: Twenty-nine Variations in Form of Brachial Plexus.

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus III: Nervous System

Twenty-nine Variations in Form of Brachial Plexus.

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD

Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed


A, Axilliary nerve; C, nerve to coracobrachialis; C4 through C8, cervicai spinal, nerves, 4 through 8; IC, intercostal nerves; LAT, lateral thoracic nerve; MAC, medial antibrachial cutaneous nerve; MAT, medial anterior thoracic nerve: MBC, medial brachial cutaneous nerve; LHU, lateral head of ulnar nerve; LP, nerve to pectoralis major; LT, long thoracic nerve; M, median nerve, MC, musculocutaneous nerve, MP, nerve to pectoralis minor: NR, nerve to rhomboids; P, phrenic nerve; R, radial nerve; S, nerve to subclavius; SA, spinal accessory nerve; SC, supraclavicular nerve; SS, suprascapular nerves; SSP, subscapular nerve; T1, first thoracic spinal nerve; TD, thoracodorsal nerve, U, ulnar nerve.

Variations are continued in Figures 33 through 41.

Redrawn from Kerr, A.T. The brachial plexus of nerves in man. Am. J. Anat. 23:285-395, 1918.

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