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Tendons Around the Ankle

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The tendons of the ankle may be divided into four compartments: anterior, medial, posterior, and lateral. The anterior compartment includes the tibialis anterior, extensor hallucis longus, and extensor digitorum longus tendons; an accessory peroneus tertius tendon may also be present. The medial compartment includes the tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus and flexor hallucis longus tendons; the posterior compartment, the Achilles and plantaris tendons; and the lateral compartment, the peroneus longus and the peroneus brevis tendons; a peroneus quartus tendon may also be present. Tendinopathy is easily diagnosed with ultrasound, and ultrasonographic-guided therapeutic procedures seem to be the most effective therapy in the same tendinopathy. Dynamic ultrasound is then the modality of choice for evaluation of tendon instability.

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Draghi, F. (2019). Tendons Around the Ankle. In: Ultrasonography of the Lower Extremity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14991-8_14

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