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Pes anserinus (leg)
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| Pes anserinus (leg) | |
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| Muscles of the gluteal and posterior femoral regions. Area of pes anserinus is encircled at bottom. sartorius, gracilis and semitendinosus are labeled at bottom left. | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | p_15/12630561 |
The pes anserinus ("goose's foot") is the insertion of the conjoined tendons of three muscles onto the anteromedial proximal tibia bone (from anterior to posterior):[1]
The conjoined tendon lies superficial to the tibial insertion of the medial collateral ligament (MCL) of the knee.
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A good mnemonic to remember the muscles which contribute tendons to this conjoint tendon and the innervations of these muscles is SGT FOS (sergeant FOS)
S- Sartorius G- Gracilis T- semiTendinosus (from lateral to medial)
F- femoral nerve O- obturator nerve S- sciatic nerve
Notice the order of the muscles (S, G, T) follows the order of the innervating nerves which correspond to those muscles (F, O, S)
It is a major cause of chronic knee pain and weakness ("pes anserinus bursitis").[2][3]
- ^ Mnemonic at medicalmnemonics.com 3447
- ^ pmr/104 at eMedicine - "Pes anserinus bursitis"
- ^ ORT249 at FPnotebook - "Pes Anserine Bursitis"
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