Ultrasound in anatomical variation of lateral femoral cutaneous nerve

We read with great interest the recently published brief commentary by Onat and colleagues entitled “Ultrasound-Guided Diagnosis and Treatment of Meralgia Paresthetica”. In this paper, the authors presented an ultrasound (US) assessment of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (LFCN), whose entrapment is known as meralgia paresthetica (MP). They correctly determined that diagnosis of MP is substantially clinical and based on specific referred symptoms. Moreover, as the authors wrote, a nerve conduction study of LFCN is not routinely conducted.