ANATOMY

The Anatomical Relationship between the Sural Nerve and Small Saphenous Vein: An Ultrasound Study

GARAGOZLO Cameron 1, Omar KADRY1, Mina ATALLA1, Cleon GARDONIS1, Fernando POLANCO1, Andrew MASSABAND1, James COEY1,2 and Sara SULAIMAN3.

1 St. George’s International School of Medicine Keith B. Taylor Global Scholars Program, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK.

2Department of Anatomy, St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indies.

3Department of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST,UK.

The sural nerve (SN) showing a typical “honeycomb” appearance due to the hypo- and hyperechoic contract of the neural fasicals and connective tissue. The small saphenous vein (SSV) was identified as a hypoechoic compressible structure.