Joints & ligaments
Infrapatellar fat pad
Corpus adiposum infrapatellare
- System
- Joints & ligaments
- Regions
- Lower limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Knee joint
DescriptionUnreviewed
The infrapatellar fat pad (Hoffa's fat pad) is a cylindrical piece of fat that is situated under and behind the patella bone within the knee.
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Names
- Latin
- Corpus adiposum infrapatellare
- English
- Infrapatellar fat pad
- French
- Coussinet adipeux infrapatellaire
- Spanish
- Cuerpo adiposo infrapatelar
- Portuguese
- Gordura infrapatelar
In the same group
- Anterior cruciate ligament
- Anterior meniscotibial ligament (Lateral meniscus)
- Anterior meniscotibial ligament (Medial meniscus)
- Arcuate popliteal ligament
- Articular capsule of knee joint
- Deep part of tibial collateral ligament
- Fibular collateral ligament
- Lateral meniscus
- Medial meniscus
- Meniscopatellar ligament
- Oblique popliteal ligament
- Popliteofibular ligament
- Posterior cruciate ligament
- Posterior meniscotibial ligament (Lateral meniscus)
- Posterior meniscotibial ligament (Medial meniscus)
- Superficial part of tibial collateral ligament
- Transverse ligament of knee