Medial Brachial Cutaneous Nerve

This nerve may receive fibers from the eighth cervical to the second thoracic nerves.

The connection with the intercostobrachial nerve may be multiple (two or more communicating branches), forming a plexus at the posterior boundry of the axillary space.

The nerve sometimes communicates with the lateral cutaneous branch of the third intercostal nerve.

When absent, the medial brachial cutaneous is replaced (rarely) by a lateral cutaneous branch from the first thoracic nerve, which traverses the first intercostal space, or more commonly by the intercostobrachial nerve.

The medial cutaneous nerve usually leaves the brachial plexus as a single branch, or it may be combined with the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve.

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