Scarpa Ganglion

The name of the anatomical formation comes from the Latin name of the muscle of the back surface of the leg - m. tenuissimus. In Galen’s book “On the use in medicine of indications of parts of the body” (XIV, II), the muscle was called sustentaculum tali, from which the Latin name for the joint sustentacula (foot) was formed, which by analogy was called sustentacula Ganga or sustentacola Sganassi. In the manuals of doctors of the 18th century. the foot is almost invariably called the knee joint, although the main connecting link of the knee joint is both the tibia and femur, and the joint itself is musculo-ligamentous.