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Figure 3.98. (A–E) The branches of the suspensory ligament becomes somewhat D shaped. (D) The branch appears to rotate in
(SLBs) are best imaged with the transducer placed more abaxially a dorsal to palmar direction, becoming oval shaped just prior to their
with a medial to lateral and/or lateral to medial orientation. These attachment onto the PSBs. (E) The SLBs should also be evaluated
structures should be evaluated at the level where they begin to in the longitudinal plane from their beginning to their attachments to
divide in distal 3A until their attachments to the PSBs. (B) Initially the PSBs. Source: US images courtesy of Dr. Caitlyn Horne.
the SLBs have an oval shape. (C) Further distally the branch
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