Corpus: Lateral sural cutaneous nerve

The lateral cutaneous nerve is a sensitive branch of the common fibular nerve.

The lateral cutaneous nerve supplies the skin of the lateral and dorsal lower leg. One of its branches, the ramus communicans peroneus, crosses the caput lateralis of the gastrocnemius muscle to the dorsal centre of the lower leg and anastomoses with the medial cutaneous nerve from the tibial nerve. Together they form the sural nerve.