Journal article

Publication year: 1999

Pages: 151-156

Journal: Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia

Volume number: 28

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 0340-2096

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1439-0264.1999.00186.x

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
The knee joint of the dog is frequently the subject of surgery if the cruciate ligaments or the menisci are injured. In the knee joint of the dog we find a ligament, which is spread out between the anterior part of the fossa intercondylaris ossis femoris and the corpus adiposus infrapatellaris. This ligamentum synoviale infrapatellare has not previously been described and represents a homologous structure to the plica synovialis infrapatellaris of human knee joint. Just like the latter and just like the cruciate ligaments it is a rudiment of a septum articulare genu, which is spread out between an articulatio femorotibialis and an articulatio femorofibularis in the early phylogenesis of tetrapods. The ligamentum synoviale infrapatellare of the dog consists of a stratum synoviale and a stratum spinosum, which includes blood vessels, nerves, many collagenous fibres and some elastic fibres. We do not find evidence for sensory nerve endings or corpuscular receptors. Therefore a severing of the ligament during knee joint surgery does not affect the proprioceptive potential of the knee joint.

Harvard Citation style: Sommer, U., Schnorr, B. and Kressin, M. (1999) Structure of the ligamentum synoviale infrapatellare in the dog, Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia, 28(3), pp. 151-156. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1439-0264.1999.00186.x

APA Citation style: Sommer, U., Schnorr, B., & Kressin, M. (1999). Structure of the ligamentum synoviale infrapatellare in the dog. Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia. 28(3), 151-156. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1439-0264.1999.00186.x