Abdomen Flashcards
What is contained within abdominal wall?
- Skin
- SQ fat
- three flat muscles
- transversalis fascia
- parietal peritoneum
- viscera of abdominal cavity
What are the 3 flat muscles within the abdominal wall?
- External oblique
- Internal oblique
- Transversus abdominis
What is the rectus sheath?
- Aponeurosis (common tendon) formed from external oblique, internal oblique, transverse abdominis, that encloses the
- rectus abdominis muscle
- pyramidalis muscle
- superior and inferior epigastric vessels
- thoraco-abdominal (intercostal nerves) and subcostal nerves
What is the linea alba?
Runs from xiphoid to pubic symphysis
A/I of external oblique?
Internal oblique?
Action: compresses and support absominal viscera; flex and rotate trunk
Innervation: thoraco-abdominal nerves (anterior rami T7-T11) AKA Intercostal nerves
and subcostal nerves (T12)
same for internal oblique! except innervation is also done by 1st lumbar nerve
A/I of transversus abdominis?
Action: compresses and supports abdominal viscera
Innervation: thoraco-abdominal nerves (anterior rami T7-T11) AKA Intercostal nerves
and subcostal nerves (T12)
aA/I of rectus abdominis?
Action: flexes trunk (lumbar vertebrae), and compresses abdominal viscera; stabilizes and controls tilt of pelvis
Innervation:
thoraco-abdominal nerves (anterior rami T7-T12) AKA Intercostal nerves
and subcostal nerves (T12)
A/I of pyramidalis?
Action: tenses linea alba; absent in 20% people
Innervation: subcostal nerve (anterior rami T12)
A/I psoas major/minor?
Action: flexes thigh, flexes vertebral column
Innervation: lumbar plexus (L2-L4)
/A/I Iliacus
Action: flexes thigh and stabilizes hip joint
Innervation: femoral nerve L2-L4
A/I Quadratus lumborum?
Action: Extends and laterally flexes vertebral colun; fixes 12th rib with inspiration
Innervation: anterior branches of T12, and L1-L4
How is the abdominal wall innervation?
- Lateral and anterior cutaneous branches of thoraco-abdmoinal nerves (anterior rami T7-T11 aka intercostal nerves)
- Subcostal (anterior rami T12)
- Iliohypogastric nerve (anterior rami L1)
- Ilio-inguinal nerve (ant rami L1)
come between internal and external
What is a transversus abdominis plane block?
- Targets intercostal nerves (below T6), subcostal, ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerves
What is the superior epigastric artery?
- Terminal branch of internal thoracic artery
- once it reaches border of rib, becomes superior epigastric
- Runs in rectus sheath and anastomose with inferior epigastric artery
What is the inferior epigastric artery?
- Branch of external iliac artery
- Runs in rectus sheath
What is deep circumflex iliac artery?
Branch of external iliac artery
run in layer with nerves (sup to transverse abdominis but deep internal oblique)
What is the thoraco-epigastric vein?
- Provides collateral pathway to SVC if IVC is blocked
- turnes into lateral thoracic vein
If inferior epigastric artery/vein is injured below arcuate vein, what can happen?
Patient can bleed out
If arterial injury above arcuate line, rectus abdominis acts as a tamponade
What is the peritoneum peitoneal cavity?
- 2 continuous layers
- Parietal peritoneum
- lines internal surface of abdominopelvic wall
- Visceral peritoneum
- invests viscera
- filled with peritoneal fluid to decrease friction, contains leukocytes and antibodies
- We have intraperitoneal, extraperitoenal, retroperitoneal and subperitoneal organs
What are our intraperitoneal organs?
- Almost completely covered wiht visceral peritoneum
- ex: stomach, spleen
What is the main characteristic of extraperitoenal, retroperitoneal and subperitoneal organs?
Outside peritoneal cavity, usually only covered on one surface by peritoneum
What are are retroperitoneal organs?
- Suprarenal glands
- Aorta/inferior vena cava
- Duodenum
- Pancreas (tail in intraperitoneal)
- ureters
- colon (ascending and descending only)
- kidneys
- esophagus
- rectum
SAD PUCKER
What is blood/nerve innervation to pareital peritoneum?
- Same blood supply and somatic nerves as region of abdominopelvic wall it lines
- umbilicue- T10
- Feels same things our skin would feel
- senstivie to heat, pressure, pain cold–> well localized
What is the blood supply and inntervation for visercal peritoneum?
What is the visceral peritoneum sensitive to and insensitive to?
- Same blood supply and visceral nerve supply as organ it covers
- ie, vagus for up to left colonic flexure, can cause bradycardia upon insufflation of belly
- Insensitive to touch, heat, cold and laceration
- Sensitive to stretching, and chemical irritation
- Pain poorly localized and referred to dermatomes
What is the pain/dermatom relationships in visceral peritoneum?
What organs are reffered to epigastric reigon?
Umbilical region?
Pubic region?
- Pharynx, esophagus, stomach referred to epigastric region
- Small intestine, cecum, appendix and ascending colon referred to umbilical region
- descending and sigmoid colon referred to pubic region
What is the omentum?
- Double layered extension of peritoneum
- greater and lesser omentums
- greater- big curtain over small/large intestine
- lesser- runs between liver and stomach
- highly mobile
- just made the omentum an organ
What is the mesentery?
- Double layer of periteonum that occurs as result of invagination of periteonum and an organ
- Provide means for neurovascular communication b/w organ and body wall
- Viscera with mesentery are highly mobile
What is the innervation pathway for presynaptic sympathetic fibers in the abdomen?
- Begins from intermediolateral cell column of gray matter of spinal cord T5-L2
- Pass through anterior roots, anterior rami and white communicating branches of T5-L2 to reach sympathetic trunks
- Pass through paravertebral ganglia of sympathetic trunks (without synapsing) to enter abomino pelvic splanchnic nerves
- greater, lesser and least thoracic splanchnic nerves
- lumbar splanchnic nerves
- Abdominopelvic splanchnic nerves conveyed to prevertebral ganglia of abdominal cavity
- celiac ganglion
- aorticorenal ganglia
- superior mesenteric ganglia
- inferior mesenteric ganglia
- ganglia names in relation to artery they’re attached to
- SYNAPSE in ganglion!
What is pathway of post-synaptic sympathetic fibers in abdomen?
Pass from prevertebral ganglia to abdominal viscera through the periarterial plexuses associated with branches of the abominal aorta
What organs have postsynaptic sympathetic nerves travelling along celiac artery plexus?
Gallbladder, liver, stomach, spleen, part of pancreas
What organs have post-synaptic sympathetic nerves travelling along the superior mesenteric artery plexus?
Small intestine up to left colonic flexure
What organs have post synaptic sympathetic fibers traveling along inferior mesenteric artery?
left colonic flexure, down to rectum
What is the role of visceral afferent fibers in referred pain?
Convey referred pain sensations
-
accompany sympathetic fibers in retrograde fashion
- pass along spanchnic nerves to sympathetic trunk and through white rami communicantes to anterior rami
- enter post root to spinal cord
- From sigmoid to rectum, visceral pain fibers run with PSNS fibers to S2-S4 sensory ganglia and spinal cord
Where are stomach referred pains conveyed?
T8-T12 dermatomes
relayed back via sympathetic nerves
Where is the referred pain to small intestine to transverse colon conveyed?
T8-T12 dermatomes via sympathetic nerve pathways
Where are referred pains from descending colon conveyed?
Referred to T12-L2 dermatomes
carried back on sympathetic fibers