The accessory tendon of the abductor pollicis longus muscle
โ Scribed by Baba, Masako Akimoto
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1954
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 431 KB
- Volume
- 119
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-276X
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The abductor pollicis longus (APL) muscle has been studied bilaterally in 50 cadavers. A variation in the organization of the muscle was found bilaterally in I5 of the 50 specimens. The novel muscular arrangement gives the appearance of being an additional muscle belly arising from the lateral aspec
## Background: In the course of a study of different variants of the tendon of the abductor pollicis longus (APL) muscle, the unusual finding of a tendon with six subdivisions was observed in the first compartment. Using this preparation and others with various numbers of tendons (2, 3, 4, and 6),