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| Nerve: Intercostobrachial nerve | |
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| Nerves of the left upper extremity. (Intercostobrachial nerve visible near top center.) | |
| Latin | nervi intercostobrachiales |
| Gray's | subject #211 946 |
| From | intercostal nerves #2 and #3 |
The intercostobrachial nerves are cutaneous branches of the intercostal nerves.
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Second intercostal nerve
The lateral cutaneous branch of the second intercostal nerve does not divide, like the others, into an anterior and a posterior branch; it is named the intercostobrachial nerve.
It pierces the Intercostalis externus and the Serratus anterior, crosses the axilla to the medial side of the arm, and joins with a filament from the medial brachial cutaneous nerve.
It then pierces the fascia, and supplies the skin of the upper half of the medial and posterior part of the arm, communicating with the posterior brachial cutaneous branch of the radial nerve.
The size of the intercostobrachial nerve is in inverse proportion to that of the medial brachial cutaneous nerve.
Third intercostal nerve
A second intercostobrachial nerve is frequently given off from the lateral cutaneous branch of the third intercostal; it supplies filaments to the axilla and medial side of the arm.
See also
Additional images
 Cutaneous nerves of right upper extremity. |
 Diagram of segmental distribution of the cutaneous nerves of the right upper extremity. |
External links
- SUNY Labs 05:st-0505 - "Axillary Region: Nerves"
- Hand kinesiology at UK nerves/intercos.htm
- Intercostobrachial+nerves at eMedicine Dictionary
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