FLEXOR RETINACULUM
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SUMMARY
1. Attached to the scaphoid tubercle & trapezium on the radial side; pisiform & hook of hamate on the ulnar side.
2. The retinaculum itself is a wide fibrous band that begins 1cm proximal to the distal wrist crease and ends 3cm distal to the crease.3. The tendon of the palmaris longus is fused with it.
Image: Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/107/ [Accessed 20 Nov. 2018].
Reference(s)
R.M.H McMinn (1998). Last’s anatomy: regional and applied. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Gray, H., Carter, H.V. and Davidson, G. (2017). Gray’s anatomy. London: Arcturus.
