abdominal wall, inguinal region Flashcards
the importance of abdominal wall
- protection and stabilization of abdominal contents
-surgical access to abdominal contents - trunk rotation and flexion (anterior and lateral)
- maintain and control intra abdominal pressure for parturition and defecation
- respiration: opposes diaphragm
muscles that makes up the posterior abdominal wall
quadrates lumborum muscle
psoas major muscle
iliacus muscle
boundaries of the anterolateral abdominal wall
from: costal cartilage or ribs 7-10 and xyphoid process
to: inguinal ligament, anterior superior iliac spine, and pubic tubercle
abdominal wall divisions
- 4 quadrants and 9 regions
- internal anatomy of the quadrants is important to know for physical examinations
- RUQ - LUQ - RLQ - LLQ
foregut pain
epigastric
midgut pain
umbilical
hindgut pain
hypogastric
layers of anterior abdominal wall
- skin
- subcutaneous fascia layers
- three overlapping muscular sheets with aponeurotic tendinous fascia
-transversalis fascia - peritoneum
1st layer of the anterior abdominal wall
skin
2nd layer of the abdominal wall (2 of them)
campers fascia (fatty)
scrapas fascia (membraneous)
third layer of abdominal wall
external oblique muscle
4th layer of abdominal wall
internal oblique muscle
5th layer of abdominal wall
transverse abdominal muscle
the layer below the transverse abdominal muscle is
transversalis fascia
layer below transversalis fascia
endoabdominal (extraperiotneal) fat
layer below endoabdominal fat
parietal peritoneum
campers fascia
adipose (fatty) layer coursing with cutaneous nerves and blood vessels
scrapas fascia
membranous fascial layer deep to the camper’s fascia (inferior to umbilicus)
- fuses with fascia lata of the thigh
clinical importance of “potential space”
- between: membranous scarpa’s fascia and aponeurosis of eternal oblique
- fluid can accumulate in the potential space (a ruptured urethra)
- no barriers to prevent superior spreading of the fluid
- deep fascia of the thigh prevents inferior spreading
muscles of the abdominal wall
rectus abdominis
external oblique
internal oblique
transversus abdominis