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Drawing shows the common peroneal nerve and its branches at the knee. The common peroneal nerve wraps around the fibular neck and under the peroneus longus muscle to trifurcate into the recurrent articular branch to the knee capsule, the superficial peroneal nerve, and the dorsal peroneal nerve.
Used with permission from: Donavan A, et al. MR imaging of entrapment neuropathies of the lower extremity. Radiographics. 2010;30:1001-1019.
