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| Nerve: Recurrent branch of the median nerve |
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| Superficial palmar nerves. (Recurrent branch labeled at center left as "Muscle to abductor, opponens, and flexor pollics brevis".) |
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The recurrent branch of the median nerve is the branch of the median nerve which supplies the thenar muscles.[1]
It usually passes distal to the transverse carpal ligament.[2]
It ends in the opponens pollicis.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Median nerve
- ^ Kozin SH (1998). "The anatomy of the recurrent branch of the median nerve". J Hand Surg [Am] 23 (5): 852–8. PMID 9763261.
- ^ Ellis, Harold; Susan Standring; Gray, Henry David (2005). Gray's anatomy: the anatomical basis of clinical practice. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 728. ISBN 0-443-07168-3.
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