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The swollen and painful left foot of a 23-year-old female long-distance runner is examined in the university orthopedic clinic. She states that she stepped on an unseen sharp object while running through the park several days earlier. Emergent surgery is ordered to deal with her tarsal tunnel syndrome. The tarsal tunnel is occupied normally by tendons, vessels, and nerves that pass beneath a very strong band of tissue (the laciniate ligament) on the medial side of the ankle. What is the most anterior of the structures that pass through this tunnel?

AFlexor hallucis longus tendon
BPlantaris tendon
CTibialis anterior tendon
DTibialis posterior tendon
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