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The intraneural topography of the radial, median and ulnar nerves. By Sydney Sunderland. Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Melbourne. Brain 1945: 68; 245–99.
Of the 18 papers appearing in Volume 68 of Brain, four are by Sydney Sunderland: he writes on ‘Arterial relations of the internal auditory meatus’, ‘Traumatic injuries of peripheral nerves’, ‘The adipose tissue of peripheral nerves’ and (here) ‘The intraneural topography of the radial, median and ulnar nerves’. Sunderland was Professor of Anatomy in the University of Melbourne; he was 35 when he wrote this paper in 1945, and had already held this post for 8 years. The question at issue for Sunderland was whether or not peripheral nerve contains discrete aggregations of nerve fibres wrapped (like a cable) in a connective tissue band, or an intraneural pattern resulting from repeated exchanges between funiculi producing ‘a plexiform arrangement of such
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