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[Connection of the ligamentum coracoglenoidale with the muscular pectoralis minor]
Abstract:
The ligamentum coracoglenoidale and its connection with the m. pectoralis minor are described. We have found three different shapes of this ligament. In 47% of the dissected specimens it was a strong round ligament, and in 39% it was a membraneous ligament that always inserted above the lig. coracohumerale. In 14%, separation of the lig. coracoglenoidale from the lig. coracohumerale at the coracoidal insertion was either impossible at all or only feasible by sharp dissection. In 16% we found a bundle of fibres of the m. pectoralis minor running over the processus coracoideus towards the head of the scapula. In two instances this bundle inserted at the humeral head. Possibly, there is a similar function as that of the meniscotibial and the meniscofemoral ligaments of the knee joint. A connection with the 'impingement syndrome' of the shoulder joint will be the base of further investigations.
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