Common Pelvic Viscera, Innervation, And Vasculature Flashcards
What are the peritoneal spaces/fossa of the female?
- supravesical fossa
- paravesical fossa
- vesicouterine pouch
- rectouterine pouch
- pararectal fossa
What allows the bladder to expand in the abdominal wall?
-peritoneum from the anterior abdominal wall reflecting loosely over the bladder
What are the peritoneal spaces/fossa in the male?
- supravesical fossa
- paravesical fossa
- ureteric fold
- rectovesical pouch
- pararectal fossa
What are the two layers of the pelvic fascia?
- parietal: transversalis fascia, membranous
- visceral: loose CT, compressible
What is the prevesical space/retropubic?
- between pubic symphysis and bladder
- potential space
- filled with endo pelvic fat and CT
What is the retrorectal/presacral space?
- between sacrum and rectum
- potential space
What is the endopelvic fascia do?
-condenses to form ligaments
What ligaments are found in the body cavity?
- pubovesical ligaments
- transverse cervical ligaments
- sacrouterine ligaments
- pubovesical ligaments (female) or puboprostatic ligaments (male) -> condensations of visceral endopelvic fascia
What is the rectovesical septum?
- separates the rectum from the prostate and the seminal vesicles
- condensed endopelvic fascia
What ischioanal abcesses?
-infections from within the anal canal, pelvic infections, etc can spread into the ischioanal fossa. Infection can spread through the superficial and deep postanal spaces to the other side
Describe the ureters.
- retroperitoneal
- muscular tubes
- peristalsis pushes urine toward the bladder
- several sets of blood vessels and nerves
- 3 places where urinary calcului catch
- cross the pelvic brim where the common iliacs bifurcate
- enter the bladder wall obliquely
What is the relationship between the ureter and the uterine artery?
-ureter runs medially to the uterine artery and then is crossed by it
Relationship between the ureter and ductus deferens in the male.
-ductus deferens crosses anterior to the ureter, ureter goes inferior to the ductus to enter the bladder
Where is the urinary bladder?
-located in the retropubic space inferior to the peritoneum and posterior to the pubic symphysis
What the structures of the bladder?
- apex
- base
- body
- neck
Describe the bladder.
- walls of the bladder are primarily detrusor muscles
- inside of the bladder is lined with transitional epithelium that form rugae when empty
- the trig one is an internal smooth thickened area defined by the openings of the 2 ureters and the urethra
What vessels supply the superior bladder?
-superior vesical a from the internal iliac
What vessels supply the inferior/posterior bladder?
- inferior vesical a (male)
- vaginal or inferior rectal a (female)