Transverse knee ligament

Knee ligament The transverse *patellar ligament* (lat. ligamentum genus) is one of the anterior ligaments of the knee joint and anchors the posterior part of the medial collateral ligament in the knee joint. It consists of two parts: medial and lateral. The medial ligament is longer than the lateral ligament and runs from the front of the tibia to the posterior upper part of the femur. The lateral ligament begins from the anterior aspect of the lateral surface of the tibial spine and continues down more superficially (medially) to the posterior aspect of the medial femoral condyle.\n

The _lateral part_ of the ligament is a support for the patellar muscle, the _medial_ - fuses with the coronoid muscle.\nThe medial anterior lateral part fuses the ligaments with the middle and internal epicondyles of the femur and fixes the deep anterior bone surface of the femur under the patellar apophysis.\n _Knee ligament in front (straight part lateral collateral ligament) can fuse with the lateral epicondyle of the femur_ when the ligament thickens from the outside to the inside. Where the ligament is stronger and thicker