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Fifth and Sixth Cervical Nerves

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The cutaneous branches of the fifth and sixth cervical nerves may be very small or completely absent. The upper subscapular nerve arises from the fifth and sixth, but in 50% of cases it also receives a contribution from the fourth. Image 31A Image 31B Image 31C Image 31D Image 31E Image 31F Image 31G Image 31H Image 31I Image 31J

The cutaneous branches of the fifth and sixth cervical nerves may be very small or completely absent. The upper subscapular nerve arises from the fifth and sixth, but in 50% of cases it also receives a contribution from the fourth.

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Riferimenti dell’opera originale

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  • Huber, G.C., Ed. (1930) Piersol's Human Anatomy,9th ed. L.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia.
  • Kopsch, F. (1908) Rauber's Lehrbuch der Anatomie des Menschen., Georg Thhieme, Leipzig.
  • Latarjet, A. (1948) Testut's Traité d'Anatomie Humaine, 9th ed., G. Doin & Cie., Paris.
  • Schaefer, E.A., Symington, J. and T.H. Bryce., Eds. Quain's Anatomy, 11th ed., Longmans, Green, and Co., London.

Anatomical classification

Systems:
Nervous system

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Adaptation of «Fifth and Sixth Cervical Nerves — Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System» by Ronald A. Bergman, Adel K. Afifi, Ryosuke Miyauchi. Source: https://www.anatomyatlases.org/AnatomicVariants/NervousSystem/Text/FifthSixthCervicalNerves.shtml Original work distributed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.it). Adaptation by Redazione AIVA. Changes from the original: Testo originale inglese riprodotto integralmente e riorganizzato nel formato scheda del portale (sintesi, testo, riferimenti), senza modificarne le affermazioni. La traduzione italiana non è ancora stata eseguita, e la pagina lo dichiara. Le figure non sono state copiate: sono collegate alla pagina d’origine. This publication is not approved or endorsed by the authors of the original work.

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