Landmark · Skeletal system
Malleolar groove of tibia
Sulcus malleolaris tibiae
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Lower limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Landmark on
- Tibia
DescriptionUnreviewed
The posterior border of the medial malleolus presents a broad groove, the malleolar sulcus, directed obliquely downward and medially, and occasionally double; this sulcus lodges the tendons of the Tibialis posterior and Flexor digitorum longus.
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Names
- Latin
- Sulcus malleolaris tibiae
- English
- Malleolar groove of tibia
- French
- Sillon malléolaire du tibia
- Spanish
- Surco maleolar de la tibia
- Portuguese
- Sulco maleolar da tíbia