Lumbosacral trunk

Lumbosacral trunk
	Plan of lumbar plexus.
	Dissection of side wall of pelvis showing sacral and pudendal plexuses.
Details
From	L4-L5
Identifiers
Latin	truncus lumbosacralis
TA	A14.2.07.026
FMA	65535
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The lumbosacral trunk is nervous tissue that connects the lumbar plexus with the sacral plexus.

Structure

The lumbosacral trunk comprises the whole of the anterior division of the fifth and a part of that of the fourth lumbar nerve; it appears at the medial margin of the psoas major and runs downward over the pelvic brim to join the first sacral nerve.

The anterior division of the third sacral nerve divides into an upper and a lower branch, the former entering the sacral plexus and the latter the pudendal plexus.

Additional images

Lumbosacral trunk
Ramus communicans.Sacral symphatetic with S1.

External links

Anatomy photo:43:15-0103 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "The Female Pelvis: The Posterolateral Pelvic Wall"
posteriorabdomen at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
figures/chapter_30/30-6.HTM: Basic Human Anatomy at Dartmouth Medical School

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Spinal nerves
Cervical	C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 anterior Cervical plexus Brachial plexus posterior Posterior branches of cervical nerves Suboccipital – C1 Greater occipital – C2 Third occipital – C3
Thoracic	T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9 T10 T11 T12 anterior Intercostal Intercostobrachial – T2 Thoraco-abdominal nerves – T7–T11 Subcostal – T12 posterior Posterior branches of thoracic nerves
Lumbar	L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 anterior Lumbar plexus Lumbosacral trunk posterior Posterior branches of the lumbar nerves Superior cluneal L1–L3
Sacral	S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 anterior Sacral plexus posterior Posterior branches of sacral nerves Medial cluneal nerves
Coccygeal	anterior Coccygeal plexus posterior Posterior branch of coccygeal nerve