SOMOS Annual meeting
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presents
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Nerves arising from L3




  Femoral:                                     L2 , L3,   L4
  Genital Femoral:                             L2 , L3,   L4
  Lateral Cutaneus:                           L2 , L3
  Obturator Nerve:                             L2 , L3,   L4
  Quadratus Lumborum:                 T12, L1, L2,   L3


- myelomenigocele:
    - 100% of pts who have lesion at L1 or L2 or higher use wheelchair;
    - 78% of pts who have lesion at lower level (L3, L4, L5) use wheelchair at least part of the time;




Orthopaedic management of high-level spina bifida. Early walking compared with early use of a wheelchair.






Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.