Chou Po-Hsin, Shyu Jia-Fwu, Ma Hsiao-Li, Wang Shih-Tien, Chen Tien-Hua
Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2008 Jan;466(1):135-8. doi: 10.1007/s11999-007-0019-0. Epub 2008 Jan 3.
We analyzed anatomic distribution of the radial nerve in the upper arms in Chinese-adult embalmed cadavers (120 nerves in 60 cadavers) and compared it with findings reported for Caucasian adults. The acromion, the medial epicondyle, and the lateral epicondyle were used as bony landmarks. We used previously described techniques to quantitatively describe the location of the radial nerve in relation to the surrounding skeleton. Courses of the radial nerve relative to the humeral shaft in Chinese subjects differed from those previously reported for Caucasian subjects. The parameters that differed from Caucasians were: the distances from the acromion to the upper margin (147 +/- 21 mm versus 124 +/- 12 mm), the acromion to the lower margin (195 +/- 36 mm versus 176 +/- 17 mm), and the medial epicondyle to the lower margin (111 +/- 21 mm versus 131 +/- 10 mm). Our study provides information to help identify the radial nerve during surgery and elucidates racial differences in the distribution of the radial nerve between Chinese and Caucasian populations.
我们分析了中国成年防腐尸体上臂桡神经的解剖分布（60具尸体共120条神经），并将其与高加索成年人的研究结果进行比较。以肩峰、内上髁和外上髁作为骨性标志。我们采用先前描述的技术定量描述桡神经相对于周围骨骼的位置。中国受试者桡神经相对于肱骨干的走行与先前报道的高加索受试者不同。与高加索人不同的参数有：从肩峰到上缘的距离（147±21毫米对124±12毫米）、从肩峰到下缘的距离（195±36毫米对176±17毫米）以及从内上髁到下缘的距离（111±21毫米对131±10毫米）。我们的研究为手术中识别桡神经提供了信息，并阐明了中国人群和高加索人群桡神经分布的种族差异。
