SOMOS Annual meeting
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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Dorsal Scapular Nerve



- See: brachial plexus

- Anatomy:
    - dorsal scapular nerve to both rhomboids is typically
            derived from C5 neve close to intervertebral foramen and runs downward
            and backward thru or across surface of middle scalene, parallel to &
            below accessory nerve;
    - it then passes medial to or thru levator scapulae (to which it may give a
            branch) and descends on the deep surface of rhomboids, parallel to the
            medial border of the scapula;







Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.