Sural Nerve Lipoma: An Anatomy Review

Hardeep Singh, Andreas Voss and Vinayak Sathe

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA
Department of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Germany

^*Correspondance to: Hardeep Singh 

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Abstract:

Sural nerve lipoma is a rare cause of sural nerve entrapment with an unknown etiology. The sural nerve is formed as a compilation of the median sural cutaneous and lateral sural cutaneous nerves, which arise from the tibial and peroneal nerves, respectively. It provides sensation to the posterolateral lower third of the leg and lateral aspect of the foot and heel. Sural nerve entrapment can result from direct trauma, fracture of the calcaneus, fifth metatarsal, posterolateral process of the talus, or osperoneum. Entrapment due to a lipoma has not been previously described in the literature. The case presented here describes sural nerve entrapment due to a lipoma. Surgical exploration with successful decompression of the sural nerve leads to improvement in the patient’s ankle symptoms.

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Singh H, Voss A, Sathe V. Sural Nerve Lipoma: An Anatomy Review. Ann Clin Case Rep. 2016; 1: 1195.