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6: Hip Buttock, Thigh Flashcards

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What are the two main regions of the lower limb?

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  1. the gluteal region–> part of the trunk
  2. The “free lower limb”–> (thigh, leg and foot)
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Acetabular notch

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Lunate surface of acetablulum

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What is the lunate surface of the acetabulum?

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The articular surface within the acetabular fossa of the acetabulum for the femur

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Where is the femural head?

What is the fovea?

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Femural head= articular surface for acetabulum

Fovea: medial depression on the medial side as attachment for the ligament

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What is the trochanteric fossa?

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What are the two layers of fascia present in the lower limb?

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  1. Superficial fascia = subcutaneous tissue
  2. Deep fascia –> Fascia lata
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What is the fascia lata?

How can it change?

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The fascia lata extends from the pelvis down the leg underneath the skin like a stocking. A thickened area of it laterally is called the ilio-tibial tract

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What are the muscles of the gluteal compartment of the thigh?

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  1. The gluteal muscles
    • Gluteus maximus
    • Gluteus medius
    • Gluteus minimus
  2. The short external rotators of the hip
    • Piriformis
    • Obturator Internus
    • The gemellus
    • Quadratus Femoris
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What are the borders of the femoral triangle?

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–Superiorly – the inguinal ligament

–Medially – adductor longus

–Laterally - sartorius

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What are the contents of the femoral triangle?

What is their organisation?

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From lateral to medial:

  • Femoral nerve
  • Femoral artery
  • Femoral vein

NAVY

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What are the muscles of the anterior compartment of the thigh?

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  • Pectineus
  • Ilio-psoas
  • (Tensor fasciae latae) (functionally anterior, supply gluteal)
  • Sartorius
  • Quadriceps femoris
    • Rectus femoris
    • Vastus medialis
    • Vastus intermedius
    • Vastus lateralis
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What is the main function of the anterior compartment of the thigh?

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It does hip flexion and knee extension

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What is the vascular and neural supply to the anterior compartment of the thigh?

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By the Femoral nerve (L2-4) and the superficial femoral artery

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What is the quadriceps?

What are its individual components?

What its function and supply?

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It has 4 parts

  1. Rectus femoris (only part that crosses hip joint)
  2. Vastus lateralis
  3. Vastus intermedialis
  4. Vastus medialis

–> All join to a common tendion that embeds the patells

Supplied by the femoral artery and nerve, involved in extension of the leg and flexion of the hip

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Explain the route of the quadriceps at the patella

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All 4 quadriceps muscles tendons join to one common tendon–>

Run to patella that is embedded in them

Continue at the patellar ligament ant attaches to the tibia

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Which muscles are part of the median compartment of the thigh?

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the Hip adductors

  • Adductor longus
  • Adductor brevis
  • Adductor magnus
  • Gracilis
  • Obturator externus
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Where do muscles from the medial compartment of the thigh attach?

What is their main function?

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They all attach around the pubis

–> Cause adduction of the hip

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What is the nerve and blood supply of the medial compartment of the thigh?

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Obturator nerve and artery

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Where does the obturator artery originate from?

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It originates from the internal iliac artery

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What is the adductor hiatus?

Which structure forms it?

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Which structures pass through the adductor hiatus ?

How do they change?

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The femoral artery and vein pass through the adductor hiatus (whole formed by adductor magnus) and become the popliteal vein and artery

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What is the sartorius muscle?

What its function?

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It is the longest muscles in the body

–> runs laterally in the anterior compartment of the thigh and crosses to insert at the medial border of the tibia

–> Tailors muscle : abduction of hip and flexion of the knee

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Which muscles are there in the posterior compartment of the thigh?

How are they also known?

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Posterior muscles, also known as “Hamstrings “

  • semimembranous
  • semitendenous
  • biceps femoris
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Where to the muscles of the posterior comparment of the thigh originate?

What is their main function?

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Most of them: from Ischium (tuberosity)

They will flex the knee and extend the hip

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Which structure forms the floor of the femural triangle?

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The pectineus (+ part of the iliacus)

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What is the saphenous opening?

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It is an opening in the femoral sheath that allows the saphenous vein to join the femoral vein

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What is the neural and vascular supply of the posterior compartment of the thigh?

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They are supplied by the inferior gluteal and branches from the profund femoral artery

The neural supply is by the tibial branch of the sciatic nerve

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Explain the nerve supply to the gluteal muscles of the thigh

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Gluteal muscles=

  • Superior gluteal nerve to medius and minimus
  • Inferior gluteal nerve to maximus
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What is the femoral sheath?

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A layer of fascia that embeddes the femoral artery and vein (not the nerve!) around the femoral triangle

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What is the adductor canal?

What are other names for it?

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Also called: Hunters canal:

It is a canal formed by the

  • Vastus medialis (anteriorly)
  • Adductor longus and adductor magnus (posteriorly)
  • Sartorius (medially)

that carries the femoral atery+ vein and the saphenous nerve

Picture: section halfway of femur

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Generally speaking: Which structure do most structures passing from the pelvis to the thigh go through?

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The greater sciatic foramen

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Explain the route of the sciatic nerve from the hip to the knee

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  • Passes from pelvis to buttock via greater sciatic notch/foramen
  • In the buttock, lies in the inferior and medial quadrant
  • Passes along posterior aspect of the thigh
  • Divides into the tibial nerve and the common peroneal nerve (also called: common fibular nerve)
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Explain the position of the sciatic nerve in respect to the piriformis muscle

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Normally: Sciatic nerve enters glueal region below piriformis

but there can be anatomical variation: might pierce the muslce or one part comes off superior to prirformis, one part inferior to piriformis

39
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What is the safe area in the thigh/ gluteal area?

Why is it important?

How do you determine it?

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It is the area wher IM injections can be performed without hitting the sciatic nerve

Position the index finger on the ASIS and the middle finger on the iliac tubercle –> safe area is the area in between!

40
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What happens physiologically, when you stand on one leg?

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Normally: the abductors of the thigh prevent tilting of the pelvis when a limb is raised.

41
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Which muscles are the hip adductors?

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Gluteus medius
Gluteus minimus
Tensor fascia lata

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What is the Trendelbergs Test?

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Test for hip abductors:

  1. Subject stands upright on both feet
  2. Examiner stands behind.
  3. Note the level of both iliac crests.
  4. Subject is asked to stand on one leg. A drop in the level of iliac crest on the unsupported side indicates weakness of the hip abductors on the stance side.
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What type of joint is the hip joint?

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It is a synovial joint with hyaline cartilage between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

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What is the acetabular notch?

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The lower part of the acetabulum without bony support

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How is the acetabular notch stabelised?

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It is stabelised by the transverse ligament of the acetabulum

46
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Explain the difference between the anterior and the posterior part of the capuse of the hip bone

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The capsule of the hip bone extends further anteriorly that posteriorly

47
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Which ligaments stablelise the hip joint?

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  • Ilio-femoral ligament
  • Pubo-femoral ligament
  • Ischio-femoral ligament
  • The ligament of the head of the femur (less important)
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Summarise the blood supply to the head of the femur.

Why might this be clinically relevant?

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Blood supply travels in the joint capsule of the hip joint:

  • Acetabular branch of the obturator artery
  • Lateral circumflex
  • and Medial circumflex femoral arteries

Most of the supply is distally–> in fracture of the femural neck it might lead to vascular acrosis when blood supply is disrupted

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Explain the couse of the arteries in the thigh from the Aorta to the Knee

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  1. Aorta –> bifurcates into
    • Right and left common iliac
      • Internal iliac artery
      • External iliac artery becomes
        • Femoral artery beneath the inguinal ligament
        • Bifurcates into
          • Superficial femoral artery
          • Profund femoral artery
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What are the perfurating arteries of the thigh?

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Branches of the prfund femoral artery

51
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What is the name of the large superficial vein of the tigh?

Where does it run?

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The long saphenous vein

It runs medially in the thigh

52
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Summarise the deep venous drainage of the thigh

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  1. Popliteal vein becomes the
  2. Femoral vein at the adductor hiatus,
    • joined by the saphenoid vein at the Sapheno-femoral junction and becomes
    • Venae comitantes of the profunda femoris artery
  3. External iliac vein at the inguinal ligament
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Summarise the lymphatic drainiage of the thigh and areas of prominent lymph nodes

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•Lymph flows with the superficial and deep veins

There are important:

  • •Superficial inguinal lymph nodes
  • •Deep inguinal lymph nodes
  • •External iliac lymph nodes
  • Polpiteal lymph nodes
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Which spinal nerves supply the Hip Flexors?

55
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Which spinal nerves supply the Hip Extensors?

56
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Which spinal nerves supply the Knee extensors?

57
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Which spinal nerves supply the Knee flexors?

58
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Map the dermatomes of the thigh and leg

59
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How is the anatomical region between the hip and the knee called, and the knee and the foot called?

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Between hip and knee= thigh

Between knee and foot= leg

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The fascia of which muscles forms the iliotibial trace?

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the facia of gluteus maximus and tensor facia lata

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