extensor digital expansion (extensor aponeurosis, dorsal hood, dorsal expansion)

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Introduction

A traingular tendinous aponeurosis including the tendon of the extensor digitorum centrally, interosseous tendon on each side & a lumbrical tendon laterally.

A comparable structure occurs on the foot.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.