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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Muscle Nerve. 2017 Apr 1;56(3):463–471. doi: 10.1002/mus.25534

Table 3.

Major and minor diameters

Ulnar nerve
Median nerve
Radial nerve
Regions DMinor (mm) DMajor (mm) DMinor (mm) DMajor (mm) DMinor (mm) DMajor (mm)
1 3.19* 3.91* 3.93* 5.95* 3.42 ± 0.29 7.82 ± 0.81
2 2.58 ± 0.65 4.01 ± 0.16 3.24 ± 0.71 5.67 ± 1.21 3.28 ± 1.05 5.19 ± 1.23
3 2.6 ± 0.27 4.04 ± 0.33 2.99 ± 0.66 6.27 ± 0.85 2.82 ± 0.4 4.56 ± 1.43
4 2.91 ± 0.91 4.72 ± 1.48 3.35 ± 1.39 7.07 ± 1.29 2.29 ± 0.36 5.03 ± 1.08
5 3.24 ± 0.90 5.68 ± 1.33 3.81 ± 1.45 8.56 ± 2.78 2.72 ± 0.49 4.64 ± 0.55
6 2.33 ± 0.79 4.87 ± 1.49 2.73 ± 0.78 5.26 ± 0.58 0.93 ± 0.3 3.17 ± 0.52
7 1.93 ± 0.34 3.34 ± 0.52 2.3 ± 0.27 4.47 ± 0.71 0.79* 2.22*
8 2.01 ± 0.40 3.86 ± 0.86 2.42 ± 0.31 5.25 ± 0.83 0.39* 1.08*
9 2.42* 4.89* 3.16 ± 1.17 6.18 ± 1.72

Major diameters (mm) and minor diameters (mm) in the ulnar, median, and radial nerves across all 9 regions.

*

One cadaver arm and 1 sample.