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The posterior compartment of the arm consists of a single muscle, the triceps. This powerful muscle is the only extensor of the elbow except for the anconeus, which contributes only slightly to this action. The triceps, as its name implies, arises from three heads. The long head, springing from the infraglenoid tuberosity and adjacent capsule of the shoulder joint, descends in front of the teres minor and behind the teres major and the medial head of the muscle.
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Karakousis, C.P. (2015). Tumor in the Dorsal Aspect of the Arm. In: Atlas of Operative Procedures in Surgical Oncology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1634-4_8
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