Fig. 3

Dissected injected specimen showing the suprafascial course of the medial sural nerve (green arrow), the lateral sural nerve (yellow arrow), and the lesser saphenous vein (blue arrow) along with the surrounding vascular plexus. The red arrow indicates the superficial sural artery, the pink arrow indicates the musculocutaneous perforators of the posterior tibial artery, and the orange arrow indicates the peroneal artery. The white arrow shows the contribution of the accompanying artery of the lesser saphenous vein to the plexus around the medial/lateral sural nerve, which also anastomoses with the communicating branch from the deep fasia and the subcutaneous vessel networks (black arrow) (color figure online)