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.
