期刊
JOURNAL OF ANATOMY
卷 225, 期 1, 页码 12-18出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12193
关键词
forearm skeletal muscles; muscle architecture; muscle fiber length; neuromuscular compartment; physiological cross-sectional area
资金
- Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau [2012352]
- Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Science and Technology Development of the People's Liberation Army [08G069]
- Shanghai Leading Talents Program (Local Team), People's Republic of China
The purposes f this study were to (i) explore the possibility of splitting the selected forearm muscles into separate compartments in human subjects; (ii) quantify the architectural properties of each neuromuscular compartment; and (iii) discuss the implication of these properties in split tendon transfer procedures. Twenty upper limbs from 10 fresh human cadavers were used in this study. Ten limbs of five cadavers were used for intramuscular nerve study by modified Sihler's staining technique, which confirmed the neuromuscular compartments. The other 10 limbs were included for architectural analysis of neuromuscular compartments. The architectural features of the compartments including muscle weight, muscle length, fiber length, pennation angle, and sarcomere length were determined. Physiological cross-sectional area and fiber length/muscle length ratio were calculated. Five of the selected forearm muscles were ideal candidates for splitting, including flexor carpi ulnaris, flexor carpi radials, extensor carpi radialis brevis, extensor carpi ulnaris and pronator teres. The humeral head of pronator teres contained the longest fiber length (6.23 +/- 0.31cm), and the radial compartment of extensor carpi ulnaris contained the shortest (2.90 +/- 0.28cm). The ulnar compartment of flexor carpi ulnaris had the largest physiological cross-sectional area (5.17 +/- 0.59cm2), and the ulnar head of pronator teres had the smallest (0.67 +/- 0.06cm2). Fiber length/muscle length ratios of the neuromuscular compartments were relatively low (average 0.27 +/- 0.09, range 0.18-0.39) except for the ulnar head of pronator teres, which had the highest one (0.72 +/- 0.05). Using modified Sihler's technique, this research demonstrated that each compartment of these selected forearm muscles has its own neurovascular supply after being split along its central tendon. Data of the architectural properties of each neuromuscular compartment provide insight into the design' of their functional capability. In addition to improving our understanding of muscle anatomy and function, elucidation of forearm neuromuscular compartments architecture may ultimately provide information useful for selection of muscle subdivisions used in tendon transfer.
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