- May 2, 2026The EPB tendon shares the first extensor compartment with the APL and is involved in de Quervain tenosynovitis alongside APL.…
- May 2, 2026The APL tendon passes through the first extensor compartment with the EPB, inserting on the first metacarpal base. It may…
- May 2, 2026The extensor indicis proprius tendon runs ulnar to the EDC index finger tendon in the fourth compartment, providing independent index…
- May 2, 2026The lumbrical tendons arise uniquely from the flexor tendons themselves (FDP) rather than from bone, and insert into the extensor…
- May 2, 2026The extensor hood is the complex fibrous expansion over the dorsum of each finger that integrates the force of the…
- May 2, 2026The flexor tendons of each finger (FDS and FDP) run through a fibro-osseous tunnel from the carpal tunnel to the…
- May 2, 2026The four extensor digitorum tendons pass through the fourth extensor compartment at the wrist under the extensor retinaculum and fan…
- May 2, 2026The wrist extensor tendons comprise the ECRL and ECRB in the second extensor compartment and the ECU in the sixth.…
- May 2, 2026The thumb extensor tendons form the anatomical snuffbox — the triangular hollow on the dorsoradial wrist between the EPL posteriorly…
- May 2, 2026The wrist flexor tendons, comprising the flexor carpi radialis, flexor carpi ulnaris, and the variable palmaris longus, are the primary…