OSTEOLOGY-FABELLA

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SUMMARY

1. Small sesamoid bone within the lateral head of the gastrocnemius.
2. Often confused with a loose body within the knee joint OR meniscal ossicle.

Fabella with arrow.jpg

Image: Jmarchn and Mikael Häggström [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons [Accessed 30 Sep. 2019].


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.