not that i am aware of. would love to know tho.

• Generic versus name brand - shalyn840
  • In broad generalizations, brand names are catchy and easy to say, generics often are not..sm - R
  • are you using a medical spellchecker?--sm - anon
    • i only have the one MQ has installed to use. - brandy
      • If I were you, just to save yourself some extra--sm - anon
        • very true. but i use their pc adn not allow to add - brandy
  • not that i am aware of. would love to know tho. - brandy

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I misspoke, okay? I usually associate the word with abdominal/pelvic CTs because that is when I usually hear it. I was trying to help, and I didn't expect to be jumped on. I have been doing medical transcription since 1971, so I do have a little experience.

And re "peroneal," I happen to hear that most often when transcribing CTs or MRIs of the knee. Per Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics (below) the peroneal nerve branches off the sciatic nerve and runs almost the entire length of the leg.  And I won't even get into the peroneal arteries and veins (which run from the knee to the ankle), muscles (peroneus longus and brevis), and tendons (which are the only part that is confined only to the ankle area, as mentioned above).

- Anatomy: 
- common peroneal nerve is derived from (L4, L5, S1, S2) as a part of the sciatic nerve; 
- posterior component, supplies short head of biceps femoris in thigh, crosses posterior to lateral head of gastrocnemius, and becomes subcutaneous behind head of fibula; 
- it penetrates the posterior intermuscular septum, and becomes closely opposed to the periosteum of the proximal fibula; 
- it then divides into superficial & deep peroneal nerves; 
- the nerve also gives off a lateral sural cutaneous brach which joins with the the medial sural cutaneous nerve (from tibial nerve) to form the sural nerve; 
- superficial peroneal nerve: 
- supplies lateral compartment of leg, first passing between peroneus longus 
 - passes in a straight line from the common peroneal nerve; 
- along the length of the proximal one third of the fibula, the superficial peroneal nerve is on the lateral cortex of the fibula; 
- passes between peroneus longus & peroneus brevis; 
- superficial sensory nerves: 
- subcutaneous superficial sensory branch lies between peroneus brevis and EDL msucles. 
- superficial peroneal nerve is accompanied by a true vascular axis that is supplied by tibialis anterior artery along its course. 
- about 10-12 cm above the tip of the lateral malleolus, the superficial peroneal nerve pierces the fascia; 
- about 6-7 cm distal to the fibula, the superficial peroneal nerve bifurcates into intermediate and medial dorsal cutaneous nerves; 
- location of cutaneous nerves: (from Huene and Bunnell 1995) 
- branches of the superficial peroneal nerve or the sural nerve may be injured during ORIF of Ankle frx; 
- these nerves are most at risk at the junction of the distal and middle thirds of the lateral border of the fibula; 
- in 22% of legs, braches of either nerve will cross the frx site; 
- in 54% of legs, branches of superficial peroneal will lie within 5 mm of the anterolateral border of the fibula; 
- safest interval is 12 mm posterior to the anterolateral border of the fibula at 10 cm from the fibular tip, and 10 mm posterior to the anterolateral border at 5 cm proximal to the tip

That's exactly what it is.  This doc is from Croatia, so sometimes his pronounciation completely throws me.  I only have two guys with accents - Croatia and Turkey, so all in all I'm really, really fortunate.  Tonight, my brain had just shut down.

Thank you so much!!!

http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_b_19zPzhtm#940543

Either this word was a new one on me or I just have not typed it in ages.  The doctor was ESL so he was hard to understand.

Word for the day?

I think, if they truly do take an English 101 course, they must also take a "made up medical terminology class".  LOL.

I use google 24/7 but then you must double-check where the information is actually coming from, a legitimate (NIH) medical website or a bulletin board or some website that isn't regulated by any medical group, understand?  I remember first googling Spironolactone and google had it misspelled!  So, I make sure the info is coming from rxlst.com or drugs.com or any govt-regulated site....

Hope that helps.  Orthopedics was my first field 29 years ago and it's always been patellofemoral, all relating to what you described while asking about patellAfemoral (as I know it, no such word with the a).

If I am wrong, I am sure to get flamed *lol* 

That's all I wanted to say because I'm starving right now and that sounds mighty tasty!