SURFACE MABKING, RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND COMPARISON OF UPPER AND LOWER LIMBS
Radial artery
Median nerve
Superficial palmar branch
of radial artery
Branch to muscles of
thenar eminence
Princeps pollicis artery
Abductor pollicis brevis
Ftexor pollicis brevis
Radialis indicis artery
Ulnar artery
Ulnar nerve
Pisiform
Flexor retinaculum and hamate
For muscles of hypothenar eminence
Abductor digiti minimi
Flexor digiti minimi
Communicating branch between
ulnar and median nerves
middle of the posterior aspect of the head of the
radius to the dorsal tubercle at the lower end of the
radius or Lister's tubercle (Fig. 11.a).
. The third point on the back of the wrist 1 cm medial
to the dorsal tubercle.
Posterior interosseous nerve supplies the muscles of
posterior aspect of the forearm
Ulnol Nerve
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Ulnar nerve is marked by joining the following points.
. A point on the lateral wall of the axilla at its lower
limit (lower border of the teres major muscle)
(Fig. 11.7).
. The second point at the middle of the medial border
of the arm.
. The third point behind the base of the medial
epicondyle of the humerus.
Digital nerve and aftery
Arteries of the Hond I l
Fig. 11.5: Branches of median nerve and ulnar nerve in the palm. Superficial palmar arch is also shown
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- Radial nerve
3 Median nerve
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Fig. 11.6: Cutaneous
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