Variations of palmaris longus.
Although variations of palmaris longus muscle are described in anatomical text books, they are seen rather rarely in practice. Within the last five years of hand surgery we came across threee different cases of such variations described in the above text. We believe that every surgeon must be aware of them, since this, otherwise unimportant muscle, provides a very useful graft in tendon surgery.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001132:Arm / Q000601:surgery; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013709:Tendon Transfer / Q000379:methods; D013710:Tendons / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000601:surgery