Anatomic Delineation of Tarsal Tunnel Innervation via Ultrasonography.
Alvaro IborraManuel VillanuevaStephen L BarrettEdgardo Rodriguez-CollazoPablo Sanz-RuizPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2017)
On the basis of this work, we can conclude that high-resolution US is almost 100% effective as a tool for identifying the tibial nerve and its branches, enabling the specialist to make diagnoses or perform selective treatments on each nerve branch and even to design surgical interventions by observing the patient's anatomy before performing the dissection.