6.1 Posterior Abdominal Viscera

Question 1

Identify and describe Pararenal Fat and Perirenal Fat.

Answer 1

Pararenal: Outside fascia, most seen laterally.
Perirenal: Flows inside kidney within renal fascia.

Question 2

Identify the right and left suprarenal glands

Answer 2

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Question 3

Identify the right and left renal arteries.

From where do these branch?

Answer 3

Abdominal aorta.

Question 4

Identify the abdominal aorta.

Answer 4

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Question 5

Identify the right and left renal veins.

Into what vessel do these drain?

Answer 5

IVC.

Question 6

Identify the right and left ureters.

Where do these enter the pelvis?

Answer 6

At the bifurcation of the ureter, where the common iliac branches into internal and external iliac aa.

Question 7

Identify the common iliac artery as well as the internal and external iliac arteries.

Answer 7

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Question 8

Identify the kidney and the following internal components

• Renal cortex
• Renal columns
• Renal medulla (renal pyramids)
• Renal papilla
• Minor calyx
• Major calyx
• Renal pelvis
• Renal sinus
• Renal hilus

Answer 8

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Question 9

Identify the suprarenal arteries.

Name and identify the 3 branches from the suprarenal artery.

Answer 9

1. Superior suprarenal artery
2. Middle suprarenal artery.
3. Inferior suprarenal artery.

Question 10

Identify the left renal vein

Name and identify 2 tributaries of the left vein.

Answer 10

1. Left suprarenal vein.

2. Left gonadal vein.