At the lower border of the adductor brevis muscle the cutaneous branch of anterior division of the obturator nerve communicates with the anterior ( medial ), cutaneous and saphenous branches of the femoral nerve, forming a kind of plexus.
12.
Historically considered a part of the vastus lateralis, the tensor vastus intermedius muscle is innervated by an independent branch of the femoral nerve and its tendinous belly can be separated from the vasti lateralis and intermedius muscles in most cases.
13.
This nerve communicates above the knee with the anterior cutaneous branches of the femoral nerve; below the knee, with other branches of the saphenous; and, on the lateral side of the joint, with branches of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, forming a plexiform net-work, the plexus patellae.
14.
It leaves the pelvis in front of the obturator externus and descends in front of the adductor brevis, and behind the pectineus and adductor longus; at the lower border of the latter muscle it communicates with the saphenous branches of the femoral nerve, forming a kind of plexus.
