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1Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, 90 Yishun Central, 768828, 120 Geylang East Central #11-66 Singapore 380120. med50110@yahoo.com; see.paul.pl@alexandrahealth.com.sg.
Abstract:
Accessory muscles are relatively rare anatomic duplications of muscles that may appear anywhere in the muscular system. Though a wide array of accessory and supernumery muscles involving the ankle have been described in the literature, this is the first reported case we are aware of that features two accessory muscles. Accessory muscles are typically asymptomatic and often picked up as incidental findings but are important to be identified in the presence of chronic persistent ankle pain and the absence of other more common aetiologies.
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