TIIK I'KKOXKAL XKKVES 



953 



part of the leg, and lateral calcaneal branches to the outer side of the heel. It 



I lasses behind l he external inalleohis, turns forwards across (lie lateral surface of the 



cruciate (external annular) ligament .and becomes the lateral dorsal cutaneous nerve. 

 Continuing along the outer side of the foot it divides into two branches, the dorsal 



FIG. 697. DISTRIBUTION OF THE SUPERFICIAL AND DEEP PERONEAL NERVES ON THE ANTERIOR 

 ASPECT OF THE I.K<; AND ON THE DOKSIM oi THE FOOT. (Hirschfeld and Leveill6.) 



COMMOX PEROXEA f. 



trs&vs 



RECURRENT ARTKT1.M: 



SUPERFICIAL PERONEAL 



BRANCH TO PERONECS 

 LOXGUS 



BRANCH TO EXTENSOR 

 DIOITORUM U>.\i;r* 



BRANCH TO PERONEUS 

 BREVIS 



SUPERFICIAL PERONEAL 



INTERMEDIATE DORSAL 

 CUTANEOUS 



LATERAL DORSAL 

 CUTANEOUS 



DORSAL DUilr.ll. 



DEEP PERONEAL 

 NERVE 



A nlerior libial artery 



TibialiB anterior 



DEEP PERONEAL 

 NICR VE 



MEDIAL DORSAL 

 CUTAXEOfs 



DEEP PEROXE.tL 

 (OUTER DIVISION) 



DI.-iTIUIirTlOX TO 

 EXTEXSIH! /l/tlf. 



Tnl:l'.\l HREVlfi 



DEEP PEROXEAL 

 (IXXEK DIVISION) 



DORSAL DIGITAL 



digitals, one of which supplies the outer side of the fifth digit, while the other an- 

 astomoses with or takes the place of a branch of the superficial peroneal (musculo- 

 cutaneous) nerve, which is distributed to the adjacent sides of the fourth and fifth 

 digits (fig. 697). 



