A bilateral third head of the gastrocnemius which is morphologically similar to the plantaris.
Takaya IshiiKyutaro KawagishiShogo HayashiShinnosuke YamadaHirotaka YoshiokaYoshiharu MatsunoYasutake MoriJun KosakaPublished in: Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA (2021)
Although they had an origin and shape similar to that of the plantaris, we identified the extra muscles in this case as a third head of the gastrocnemius, because of innervation to the plantaris arises directly from the tibial nerve. This case highlighted that the innervation is essential to understanding the myogenesis of extra muscles, especially in cases which are difficult to categorize based on the morphological features of the muscle.