Prevalence of the fabella and its general characteristics in Turkish population with magnetic resonance imaging.
Introduction: The fabella is a fibrocartilaginous or ossified sesamoid bone in the knee, largely located in the lateral tendon of the head of the gastrocnemius muscle. In this study, the prevalence, gender differences, localization and size of the fabella were determined in a Turkish population to m...
| Publicado en: | Surgical & Radiologic Anatomy Vol. 43; no. 12; pp. 2047 - 2055 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2021
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