. Text-book of operative surgery . rnal popliteal nerve is the firststructure to appear. When this is draAvn outwards the popliteal vein comes into view,closely bound down by a strong sheath to the subjacent popliteal artery, which liesabove upon the fat covering the femoral trigone, and below upon the popliteus muscle. In the leg. The posterior tibial nerve lies close to the outer side of the posteriortibial artery : it is therefore exposed in the same way as the artery (Fig. 131). (a) Ramus Communicans Tibialis {N. Cutaneus Surce Jledialis). This nerve 17 a 26o OPERATIVE SURGERY has a very d
. Text-book of operative surgery . rnal popliteal nerve is the firststructure to appear. When this is draAvn outwards the popliteal vein comes into view,closely bound down by a strong sheath to the subjacent popliteal artery, which liesabove upon the fat covering the femoral trigone, and below upon the popliteus muscle. In the leg. The posterior tibial nerve lies close to the outer side of the posteriortibial artery : it is therefore exposed in the same way as the artery (Fig. 131). (a) Ramus Communicans Tibialis {N. Cutaneus Surce Jledialis). This nerve 17 a 26o OPERATIVE SURGERY has a very definite course and accompanies the short saphenous vein. It lies ow- tlieouter side of the vein in the middle of the calt of the leg betweeu the two heads of thegastrocnemius and under cover of the deep fascia which it pierces below the prominenceof the calf (Fig. 130). Behind the external malleolus the short saphenous nerve, which is formed by theUnion of the nervus communicans tibialis with the nervus communicans fibularis, lies.
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