Variations for Incomplete Formation of the Plantaris Muscle: A Case Report (장딴지빗근의 불완전한 형성에 대한 변이: 증례 보고)

Park Kwang Rak (박광락); Cho Jae Ho (조재호); Yu Jin Choi (최유진); Mijung Lee (이미정); Digud Kim (김디귿); Hyung Wook Kwon (권형욱); Park Jeong Hyun (박정현)

doi:10.11637/aba.2021.34.2.53

Variations for Incomplete Formation of the Plantaris Muscle: A Case Report

Anatomy & Biological Anthropology
Abbr : Anat Biol Anthropol
2021, 34(2), pp.53~56
DOI : 10.11637/aba.2021.34.2.53
Publisher : 대한체질인류학회
Research Area : Medicine and Pharmacy > Anatomy
Received : June 2, 2021
Accepted : June 10, 2021
Published : June 30, 2021

Park Kwang Rak ¹, Cho Jae Ho ², Yu Jin Choi ³, Mijung Lee ³, Digud Kim ⁴, Hyung Wook Kwon ⁴, Park Jeong Hyun ⁵

¹계명대학교 의과대학
²한림대학교 의과대학 춘천성심병원 정형외과학교실
³강원대학교 의학전문대학원 해부학 교실
⁴강원대학교 의학전문대학원 해부학교실
⁵강원대학교

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ABSTRACT

We present a case of variation of origin and tendon disappearance in a 58-year-old Korean male cadaveric specimen in our routine dissections. First, the origin of the plantaris muscle is slightly medial above the lateral articular eminence of the lateral head of the gastrocnemius muscle. That is, compared to the normal origin, it started from the infero-medially side. Second, we observed a variation in which the tendon thins and disappears without being fused to the gastrocnemius or soleus muscle at the proximal 1/3 of the calf during the normal course. The disappearance of the plantaris tendon during the course is extremely rare. It would be an anatomical basic data that could be applied during tendon transplantation clinically or that can find the developmental sequence of plantaris muscle.

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Plantaris muscle, Origin, Variation, Korean

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