Today's Hours: 8:00am - 10:00pm

Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy

Dissection of posterior aspect of left leg

Popliteus muscle, close-up view

Image #196-1

KEYWORDS: Leg, Muscles and tendons.

Creative Commons

Stanford holds the copyright to the David L. Bassett anatomical images and has assigned Creative Commons license Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International to all of the images.

Creative Commons License logo

For additional information regarding use and permissions, please contact Dr. Drew Bourn at dbourn@stanford.edu.

Dissection of posterior aspect of left leg
Popliteus muscle, close-up view
The heavy fascia that covered the popliteus has been cut away.
  1. Muscular branch of tibial nerve (stretched)
  2. Popliteus muscle (tendon of origin emerging through capsule of knee joint)
  3. Subpopliteal recess
  4. Muscular branch of tibial nerve (to tibialis posterior muscle)
  5. Muscular branch of tibial nerve (to popliteus muscle)
  6. Anterior tibial artery
  7. Posterior tibial artery
  8. Soleus muscle (origin)
  9. Peroneal artery
  10. Flexor hallucis longus muscle
  11. Tibialis posterior muscle
  12. Lateral head of gastrocnemius muscle
  13. Lateral inferior genicular artery
  14. Popliteal artery
  15. Oblique popliteal ligament
  16. Semimembranosus muscle (insertion)
  17. Medial inferior genicular artery
  18. Popliteus muscle
  19. Flexor digitorum longus muscle