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Posterior ligament of the head of the fibula

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Dorlands/Elsevier
  
l_09/12491791

FMA
  
76858

TA
  
A03.6.09.003

Posterior ligament of the head of the fibula

Latin
  
ligamentum capitis fibulae posterius

The posterior ligament of the head of the fibula is a part of the knee. It is a single thick and broad band, which passes obliquely upward from the back of the head of the fibula to the back of the lateral condyle of the tibia.

It is covered by the tendon of the Popliteus.

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Posterior ligament of the head of the fibula Wikipedia