The Accessory Soleus Muscle: Case Report and a Review of the Literature
Author
Reis,Francisco Prado
Aragão,José Aderval
Fernandes,Atson Carlos de Souza
Feitosa,Vera Lucia Corrêa
Fakhouri,Ricardo
Nunes,Marco Antonio Prado
Abstract
An accessory soleus muscle was found in the left leg of a male cadaver in the dissecting room. The muscle was situaded posteromedially, between the soleus muscle and the flexor digitorum longus and flexor hallucis longus. The origin of the muscle was in the superior third of the anterior fascia of the soleus muscle and the insertion, was attached with separate tendon, in the anteromedial surface of calcaneus bone