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The author defines a popliteal cyst as a communicating gastrocnemio-semimembranosus bursa which is constantly or temporarily distended by synovial fluid, and not as a cyst originating from the tendon sheath of the popliteus muscle.
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Wolfgang Rauschning (1979) studied this question.
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