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Gracilis Muscle Flap (905 words) |
 | The gracilis muscle is long and thin, tapering from its widest point superiorly to a tendinous insertion on the medial knee inferiorly. |
| The muscle is innervated by the anterior branch of the obturator nerve, itself a branch of the lumbar plexus. |
| The fascial attachments of the adductor longus to the adductor magnus are freed superior and inferior to the pedicle and the adductor longus is retracted away from the magnus. |
| adductor muscle injuries (9376 words) |
| In all patients, the torn muscle was retracted in an anterior and superior direction and an arthroscopic lateral release was performed followed by open primary repair of the medial patellofemoral ligament to the adductor tubercle and repair of the vastus medialis obliquus muscle to the adductor magnus tendon. |
| To reinnervate the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle (abductor), a phrenic nerve graft was anastomosed to the main trunk of the recurrent laryngeal nerve. |
| Symptomatic injuries of the adductor muscles are uncommon and are not to be confused scintigraphically with a stress fracture of the proximal femoral shaft. |
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