Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System: Alphabetical Listing of Muscles, Abductor Pollicis Longus, Abductus Pollicis Longus

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System, Alphabetical Listing of Muscles, Abductor Pollicis Longus

Variations of abductor pollicis longus tendons of insertion

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
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Image of variations of abductor pollicis longus tendons of insertion

a, usual tendon of insertion at base of the first metacarpal;
b, tendinous slip to the greater multangular;
c, tendinous slip to abductor pollicis brevis; and
d, tendinous slip to opponens pollicis.

from Lacey, et al., 1951

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