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Foot and Ankle Anatomy: Medial Ligaments

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Let's move up now to the medial ligament is complex,

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where indeed there is the deltoid ligament.

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And although there is disagreement with regard

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to all the components of this complex ligament,

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everybody agrees that there is a superficial portion shown

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by the red arrows

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and a deep portion shown by the blue arrows.

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So here is my picture showing you in three dimensions,

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the superficial portion of the deltoid

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and the deep portion of the deltoid.

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Well, let's look at this in more detail.

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I'm showing you now I I something I created

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to show you the medial maus with the anulus,

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the inter canicular groove

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and the posterior colliculus to that particular image.

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Let us now add the deep portion

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of the deltoid ligament, which consists of deep

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tibio Taylor fibers.

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The constant part is the posterior deep

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tibio Taylor ligament.

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It is a very important ligament.

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It is the strongest part of the deltoid ligament.

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The anterior LIG fibers that run from the uh,

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tibia to the Payless are not present in everyone.

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All right, but you may be able to see

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that component as well.

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So these are the two components of the deep portion

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of the deltoid ligament.

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Now I show you in this particular drawing,

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I've added the superficial portion,

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which is a broad ligament with many attachments.

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Some people suggest there is a HA attachment

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that is very variable.

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The next one we deal with is the tibial navicular portion.

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Then we have a tibial spring component,

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a tibial sustentacular component.

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And then in some persons we will have

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a posterior superficial tibial table component.

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So if you go back to a section through the medial malis,

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here's the interocular groove, the posterior colliculus

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that is deep deltoid.

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This is the superficial portion of the deltoid,

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which attaches mainly to the anulus

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of its various components.

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That component attaching to the sust tum is said

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to be the strongest.

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So let's look at some images now to try

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to see if we can figure out what part of the deloid.

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Here we're looking at a coronal image fairly

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far posteriorly.

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This is the posterior,

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a deep posterior tibial Taylor portion

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of the deltoid ligament attaching

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to this concave border of the talis.

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This is the strongest part

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Of the deltoid ligament.

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As we move slightly forward in the coronal pain in this

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particular person, we can identify a thinner

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deep anterior tibio Taylor portion

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of the deltoid ligament.

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Let's look at an abnormality now involving

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the deltoid ligament.

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This is what abnormality of the deep posterior

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tibial tailor fibers would look like.

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And by the way, when you have that,

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you often will have marrow edema within

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the TAUs to help you diagnose that.

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There's an abnormality there. This is partial tearing.

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And here we can see an addition that there is tearing,

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at least at the attachment here, the proximal attachment

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of the deep anter tibio tailor ligament or fibers.

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We go to our sagittal image

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anulus inter canicular groove posterior kaulu,

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and we can see abnormal fibers attaching everywhere

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to the medial Malala.

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We're dealing with tear tearing involving the deep

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anterior and posterior fibers.

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Faculty

Donald Resnick, MD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiology

University of California, San Diego

Christine B. Chung, MD

Professor of Radiology, Executive Vice Chair, and Director of UCSD MSK Imaging Research Lab

UC San Diego

Karen Y. Cheng, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology

University of California, San Diego

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Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI

Foot & Ankle