Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System: Alphabetical Listing of Muscles: P

Peroneus Tertius

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
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Macalister reports peroneus tertius as follows:

1. The muscle may be absent (~1/10 subjects);

2. It may be doubled;

3. Or it may have a doubled tendon;

4. Or send a tendinous slip to the fourth metatarsal;

5. Or may go entirely to this bone;

6. As a mere tendinous band from extensor communis;

7. Sending a slip to extensor aponeurosis of the little toe;

8. Or a slip to the lateral tendon of the long extensor;

9. Or to the corresponding tendon of the short extensor (Bahnsen);

10. With a doubled tendon, one part of which went to the fascia over the fourth interosseous muscle;

11. Arising from the lower half of the fibula;

12. Sending off the extensor tendon to the little toe in a case in which no such tendon arose from the long extensor;

13. Doubled, the posterior muscle having two tendons to the fifth metatarsal, the anterior sending slips to the little toe and fourth metatarsal.

Syn.: m. Dritter Wadenbeinmuskel, Péronier antérieur, Petit péronier.

References

Anson, B.J., Ed. (1966) Morris' Human Anatomy, 12th ed., The Blakiston Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.

Bhadkamkar, A.R. and V. R. Mysorekar. (1961) Anomalous peroneus tertius and extensor digitorum longus muscles. J. Anat. Soc. India. 10:37-38.

Hoshiba, M. (1938) The variations of the M. peroneus tertius. Kanazawa Ikadaigaku Kaibogaku Kyoshitsu Gyosekishu 29:119-121. In Japanese.

Macalister, A. (1875) Observations on muscular anomalies in the human anatomy. Third series with a catalogue of the principal muscular variations hitherto published. Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. Sci. 25:1-130.

Morimoto, I., Yasaki, H., and S. Katagiri. (1959) The incidence and familial nature of genesis of the peroneus tertius muscle. Medical Journ. of Shinshu University 4:259-268. In Japanese.

Shigematsu, M., Tsubakihara, M. and S. Isayama. (1956) On the M. peroneus tertius. Kurume Igakkai Zasshi 19:1303-1308. In Japanese.

Sokolowska-Pituchowa, J., Miaskiewicz, C., Skawina, A. and K. Makos. (1974) Morphology and some measurements of the peroneus tertius muscle in man. Folia Morphol. (Warsaw) 33:91-103.

Stephenson, P.H. (1921) On an unusual anomaly of the peroneus tertius in a Chinese. Anat. Rec. 22:81-83.