Anterior Abdominal Wall and Surface Anatomy Flashcards
What is the function of the abdominal wall?
- Keep abdominal viscera in the abdominal cavity
- Protect abdominal viscera from injury
- Maintain anatomical position of abdominal viscera against gravity
- Assist in forceful expiration
- Involved in any action that increases intra-abdominal pressure
What are the borders of the Anterior Abdominal Wall?
- Xiphoid Process
- Costal Margins
- Pelvic bones
How is the anterior abdominal Wall divided into 4 Quadrants?
2 lines:
- Xiphoid process to pubic symphysis
- Transumbilical line
What are the 4 quadrants of the anterior abdominal wall?
- Right Upper Quadrant
- Right Lower Quadrant
- Left Upper Quadrant
- Left Lower Quadrant
What lines divide the Anterior Abdomen into 9 regions?
- Right Midclavicular Line
- Left Midclavicular Line
- Transpyloric Plane
- Intertubercular PLane
Where is the Transpyloric Plane?
Horizontal line halfway between the xiphoid process and the umbilicus–> at level L1
Where is the Intertubercular Plane?
Horizontal line that joins the iliac tubercles
What are the 9 regions of the anterior abdomen?
- Epigastric
- Right Hypochondium
- Left Hypochondrium
- Umbilical
- Right flank
- Left flank
- Pubic
- Right Iliac/Groin
- Left Iliac/Groin
Where is Murphy’s Point?
At the intersection between the Right Midclavicular line and the transpyloric plane–> Also at the edge of the 9th costal cartilage
Where is McBurney’s Point?
1/3rd of the distance between anterior superior iliac spine and umbilicus
What is significant about McBurney’s Point?
It is where incisions are made to remove the appendix
What surgical incisions can be made on the anterior abdominal wall?
- Subcostal
- Medial
- Paramedian
- Transverse
- Pubic
- McBurney’s
What are the layers of the Abdominal Wall from Superficial to deep?
- Skin
- Camper’s Fascia
- Scarpa’s Fascia
- External Oblique Muscle
- Internal Oblique Muscle
- Transverse Abdominis Muscle
- Transversalis Fascia
- Parietal Peritoneum
- Visceral Peritoneum
Which of the Superficial Fascia layers is fatty?1
Camper’s Fascia
Which of the Superficial Fascia Layers is membranous?
Scarpa’s Fascia
What goes between the 2 layers of Superficial Fascia?
Superficial Vessels and Nerves (T7-L1)
What are the muscles of the abdominal wall?
- External Oblique
- Internal Oblique
- Transverse Abdominis
- Rectus Abdominis
- Pyrimdalis
What are the functions of the flat muscles of the abdomen?
- Flex the trunk
- Laterally flex the trunk
- Rotate the trunk
Describe the External Oblique muscle
Largest flat abdominal muscle, with its fibres running inferomedially and form an aponeurosis in the midline forming the line alba
What are the origins of External Oblique?
Ribs 5-12
Where does External Oblique insert?
- Iliac Crest
- Pubic Tubercle
- Linea Alba
What is the blood supply to External Oblique?
- Lower intercostal Arteries
2. Branches of either the deep circumflex iliac artery or the iliolumbar artery
What is the nerve supply to External Oblique?
- Thoracoabdominal nerves from T7-T11
2. Subcostal nerve from T12
What are the actions of External Oblique?
Controlateral Rotation of the Torso
Describe the Internal Oblique Muscle
Lying deep to External Oblique, its fibres run superomedially and near the midline, it forms aponeurotic fibres which contribute to line alba
What are the origins of Internal Oblique?
- Inguinal Ligament
- Iliac Crest
- Lumbodorsal Fascia
Where does Internal Oblique insert?
- Linea Alba
2. Pecten Pubis