Extensor expansion

Extensor expansion
Extensor expansion covers the tendon of extensor digitorum tendons over the proximal phalanges
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Anatomical terminology

An extensor expansion (extensor hood,[1] dorsal expansion, dorsal hood, dorsal aponeurosis) is the special connective attachments by which the extensor tendons insert into the phalanges.

These flattened tendons (aponeurosis) of extensor muscles span the proximal and middle phalanges.[2]

At the distal end of the metacarpal, the extensor tendon will expand to form a hood, which covers the back and sides of the head of the metacarpal and the proximal phalanx.

  1. ^ Blankenbaker, Donna G.; Davis, Kirkland W.; Sonin, Andrew; Crim, Julia R., eds. (2016-01-01), "Extensor Tendon Injury, Wrist and Fingers", Diagnostic Imaging: Musculoskeletal Trauma (Second Edition), Diagnostic Imaging, Elsevier, pp. 468–473, doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-39253-2.50118-x, ISBN 978-0-323-39253-2, retrieved 2021-01-04
  2. ^ "eMedicine - Hand, Tendon Lacerations: Extensors : Article by D Glynn Bolitho, MD, PhD, FACS". Retrieved 2008-01-20.
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