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Endo/Repro anatomy Flashcards

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Internal iliac artery branches

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Divides to

Posterior:
iliolumbar (p), lateral sacral (p) and superior gluteal (p)

Anterior:
inferior gluteal (p)
umbilical, obturator (p), inferior vesical/vaginal, middle rectal, internal pudendal (p)

(p) = parietal, rest are visceral

Corresponding veins form plexuses around viscera and drain to internal iliac vein

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Obturator internus, piriformis, levator ani and coccygeus roots and actions

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Obturator internus + piriformis

  • S1-2
  • abduction and external rotation of leg, stabilising hip joint

Levator ani + coccygeus

  • S3-5
  • urinary control, support of pelvic organs
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Pelvic fractures

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Range in severity - can be life-threatening

Pelvis is ring, so if break in one place then likely to be other breaks (but takes force to break!)

Rich plexus of veins and arteries, so if damaged then catastrophic bleeding

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Perineum

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Between pelvic outlet and pelvic diaphragm

Urogenital triangle

  • ischial tuberosities to pubic symphysis
  • contains external genitalia

Anal triangle

  • ischial tuberosities to coccyx
  • contains anus

Perineal membrane is between inferior pubic rami (so only covers urogenital triangle)
- external genitals attach to

  • perineal body is fibromuscular node between anal and urogenital openings - join of levator ani, bulbus spongiosum, external anal sphincter, transverse perineal muscles to perineal membrane
  • anococcygeal body is fibromuscular join of levator ani fibres converging and joining to coccyx
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Ischioanal fossa

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Between levator ani (sloping roof) and obturator internus (lateral wall)

Pudendal canal runs through - containing internal pudendal vein and artery, pudendal nerve

Fat filled space

Allows movement of pelvic diaphragm and expansion of anal canal during defecation

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Pelvic fascia + deep and superficial perineal pouches

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Abdomen
– peritoneum –
Pelvic cavity
– levator ani, piriformis (pelvic floor) –
Deep perineal pouch
– perineal membrane (only at urogenital triangle) –
Superficial perineal pouch
– labia/skin –

DEEP PERINEAL POUCH
Contents of urogenital triangle lying superior to perineal membrane
Contain bulbourethral glands in men

SUPERFICIAL PERINEAL POUCH
Contents of urogenital triangle lying inferior to perineal membrane
Contains erectile bodies - ischiocavernosus, bulbospongiosus, superficial transverse perineal muscles + vestibular glands in female

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Pudendal nerve

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S2-4

Sensation to penis/clitoris, posterior scrotum/labia, anal canal

Motor to bulbospongiosus and ischiocavernosus (sexual function), levator ani, external anal sphincter, external urethral sphincter, transverse perineal muscles

Leaves pelvis by greater sciatic foramen and then re-enters by lesser sciatic foramen

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Male vs female pelvis

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MALE

  • heart shaped pelvic inlet
  • 0 taller pelvic outlet
  • deeper pelvic cavity
  • less than 90º pubic arch angle
  • longer sacrum and coccyx
  • > primed for walking

FEMALE

  • O transverse wider pelvic inlet
  • 0 taller pelvic outlet (so baby rotates in birth)
  • shallower pelvic cavity
  • greater than 90º pubic arch
  • shorter flatter sacrum, shorter moveable coccyx
  • > primed for walking + childbirth

(in pregnancy, relaxin hormone increases diameter of pubic symphysis and sacroiliac joints, so wider pelvis)

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Episiotomy

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Mediolateral (always now, to divert tear from anus) or midline (easier to perform, faster healing, better cosmetics)

To prevent damage to pelvic floor, as would effect continence especially if tear into anus

  • cut through skin, bulbospongiosum, superior transverse perineal + levator ani if necessary

Can be no anaesthetic if emergency, or do pudendal nerve block (usually for forceps birth)

Complications -> haematomas, oversewing of pouch so vagina too small, (rare) fistula between vagina and rectum

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Female external genitalia

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Mons pubis (fat filled, covered in pubic hair)

Vulva, inc clitoris

Labia majora (analagous to male scrotum) and minora (come together to form clitoral hood)

Vestibule - contains external urethral meatus, vaginal orifice (vestibular glands secrete lubrication here)

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Clitoris

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Anatomically analogous to male penis

Erectile tissue is crura and bulb of vestibule

Glans partially covered by prepuce (labia menora fold hood)

  • Internal pudendal artery supplies
  • Dorsal veins drain to internal pudendal vein
  • Lymph to medial superficial inguinal nodes
  • Somatic nerve supply from pudendal nerve
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Penis

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Three masses of erectile tissues:

CORPORA CAVERNOSA

  • crura are legs, proximal attachment to ischial rami, ischiocavernosus constricts
  • shaft
  • – deep artery of penis supplies (cavernosal arteries)

CORPUS SPONGIOSUM

  • bulb - attached to perineal membrane, bulbospongiosus constricts to stabilise erection, propel urethral contents in ejaculation and urination
  • shaft (surrounding urethra)

GLANS

— bulbourethral artery supplies CS and glans

Arteries both branches of internal pudendal
Corresponding venous drainage to internal iliac veins
Skin -> superior inguinal lymph nodes, glans -> deep inguinal nodes and external iliac nodes

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Male urethra

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Prostate gland and seminal vesicles empty into ejaculatory duct, bulbourethral gland empties near bulb of penis to penile urethra

1 - pre-prostatic

2 - prostatic

3 - membranous/intermediate

4 - spongy/bulbar

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Scrotum

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Contains testis and its coverings

Skin is pigmented and rugosae

Subcutaneous tissue
Dartos muscle - to move testicles up into body in cold temperatures

Lymph drains to superficial inguinal nodes

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Testicular cancer

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Painless swelling, enlarged testicle

7/100,000 prevalence, lifetime risk of 1/200
Most common aged 15-35
Risk factors - testicular maldescent, infantile hernia, XXY Klinefelter’s syndrome, family history, infertility, tall height

Tumour would spread to para-aortic lymph nodes (in abdomen)

Good prognosis if caught early - 5 year survival 90%+

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Testicular torsion

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Sudden onset scrotal swelling and pain

Testis spins on axis, compromising blood supply, -> gangrene

EMERGENCY

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Anterior pituitary

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Upgrowth of oral cavity (Rathke’s pouch)

Glandular epithelium, secrete small protein/glycoprotein hormones

Acidophils - orange staining, 70% cells, including somatotrophs (GH) and lactotrophs (prolactin)

Basophils - red staining, including corticotrophs (ACTH), gonadotrophs (LH, FSH) and thyrotrophs (TSH)

Cells controlled by hypothalamic hormones (releasing or inhibiting)

Pars distalis (main part), pars intermedia, pars tuberalis (collar and stalk)

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Posterior pituitary

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Downgrowth of diencephalon

Pars nervosa - axons and terminals of hypothalamic neurosecretory cells (cell bodies in hypothalamus)

Vasopressin and oxytocin secreted here and stored in Herring bodies

Pituicytes also found here - type of glial cell, irregular shape, rounded/ovoid nuclei

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Adrenal gland layers

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Zona glomerulosa

  • small columnar/pyramidial cells
  • rounded nuclei
  • numerous sinusoidal capillaries around
  • in clusters, then columns
  • secrete mineralocorticoids

Zona fasciculata

  • large polyhedral cells
  • small central spherical nuclei
  • cells in straight cords
  • surrounded by fenestrated sinusoidal capillaries
  • secrete mainly glucocorticoids, some weak androgen

Zona reticularis

  • smaller cells
  • arranged in anastamosing cords -> net-like appearance
  • secrete mainly weak androgens, some glucocorticoids

Medulla

  • chromaffin and ganglion cells, surrounded by sinusoidal capillaries and nerve fibres
  • chromaffins secrete catecholamine hormones
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Ducts of testes

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Seminiferous tubules

Rete testis

Ductus efferens

  • 95% fluid reabsorbed here
  • pseudostratified epithelium -> saw-tooth appearance
  • fine basement membrane, thin layer circular smooth muscle

Ductus epidiymis

  • single convuluted tubule
  • pseudostratified columnar epithelium
  • tall principal cells - even surface, long stereocilia, then shorter in tail of epididymis
  • thin circular muscle layer, thickens near deferens

Ductus deferens

  • thick walled, muscular tube
  • widens to form ampulla, joined by ducts of seminal vesicles

Ejaculatory duct

  • enters prostatic urethra
  • less tall columnar or pseudostratified epithelia
  • short microvilli mat together to form cones
  • dense lamina propria, several longitudinal folds
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Spermatogenesis

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Type A dark spermatagonia - resident stem cells, resting on basement membrane

Type A light spermatagonia - regularly dividing

Type B spermatagonia

Primary spermatocyte - larger, further out than 2º

Secondary spermatocyte - rare to see, differentiate quickly

Spermatid

Sertoli cells span width of seminiferous tubule

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Prostate gland

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30-50 tubulo-alveolar glands arranged in layers, surrounded by smooth muscle and connective tissue

3 glands open into urethra:

MUCOSAL

  • in peri-urethral tissue
  • contribute little to secretions, but enlarge in prostatism
  • empty directly to urethra

SUBMUCOSAL

  • peripheral to mucosal glands
  • drain into prostatic ducts that open at urethral sinus

MAIN

  • 70% secretions from here
  • in largest, outermost portion
  • susceptible to inflammation, site of carcinomas
  • drain into prostatic ducts that open at urethral sinus

Alveoli (folded simple columnar epithelia) of glands surrounded by stroma, and concretions (calcified deposition in older men)

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Follicles of ovary

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Primordial

  • declining pool formed before birth
  • in superficial layers of cortex
  • primary oocyte surrounded by flattened granulosa cells on basement membrane

Primary
- develop spontaneously
- deeper in cortex
- oocyte enlarged, zona pellucida present, cuboidal granulosa in several layers, theca interna beginning to form
Secondary (= Graafian)
- formed by FSH stimulation at start of cycle
- granulosa 6 layers thick, antrum of follicular fluid, oocyte at edge

Tertiary

  • only one formed per cycle, after LH surge
  • ovulated after 12-24 hours

(atretic follicles also)

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Ovary

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Almond shaped, 3cmx2cmx1cm (shrivels at menopause)

Attached to broad ligament by mesovarium
Round ligament (formed from gubernaculum) joins ovary to fundus of uterus and then continues through inguinal canal to labium major
Suspensory ligament contains blood vessels, travels from pelvic wall to mesovarium

Ovarian arteries (from AA at L1) supply

Ovarian veins drain (left to left renal vein, right to IVC)

Lymph to para-aortic nodes

-> to produce oocytes, and oestrogen + progesterone

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Oviducts

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10cm long, enclosed by broad ligament except at distal ends

Four parts:

  • intramural
  • isthmus
  • ampulla
  • infundibulum

Ciliated columnar epithelia and peg cells line

Branches of ovarian and uterine arteries supply
Corresponding veins drain

Lymph to para-aortic and internal iliac nodes

Inner mucosa -> waft ovum to uterus, supply it with nutrients
Smooth muscle layer -> peristalsis of ova/sperm (increased in high oestrogen)

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Uterus

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Anteverted at vagina, anteflexed at cervix

Enclosed in broad ligamnet - the perimetrium is part of the broad ligament adherent to uterus

Uterine artery supplies (runs in broad ligament)
Plexus in broad ligament drain to uterine veins

Lymph: fundus to para-aortic, body + cervix to internal/external iliac nodes

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Broad ligament

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Fold of peritoneum from lateral walls, across pelvic cavity

Encloses uterus and oviducts

Ovaries attached to posterior aspect

Lateral attachments form the suspensory ligaments of the ovary

-> forms the utero-vesical and recto-uterine pouches
(RU pouch = pouch of Douglas, fluid may collect here)

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Endopelvic fascia

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Surrounds nerves and vessels in pelvis

Thickenings form uterine ligaments:

  • uterosacral - to sacrum
  • transverse cervical (cardinal) - to lateral walls
  • pubo-cervical - to body of pubis

Continues downwards to form recto-vaginal septum

Ligaments necessary to hold cervix in place and (with pelvic diaphragm) support the uterus. Weakening of these ligaments can -> uterine prolapse

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Vagina

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Stratified squamous epithelia, lubricated by cervical mucus

Vaginal artery (from internal iliac) supplies, and the vaginal branch of the uterine artery

Vaginal venous plexus drains to internal iliac

Upper 1/3 lymph -> iliac nodes, middle 1/3 -> internal iliac nodes, lower 1/3 -> superficial inguinal nodes

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Testis

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Coverings:

  • tunica albuginea - tough fibrous capsule
  • tunica vaginalis - only anterior, medial, lateral surfaces
  • internal spermatic fascia
  • cremasteric fascia
  • external spermatic fascia

Testicular arteries (from AA at L1) supply

Pampiniform plexus drains to testicular vein, left to left renal, right to IVC

Lymph to para-aortic nodes

Testicular plexus from T10 supplies nerves

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Spermatic cord

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3 coverings:

  • internal spermatic fascia - from transversalis fascia
  • cremasteric muscle and fascia - from internal oblique
  • external spermatic fascia - from aponeurosis of external oblique

3 arteries:

  • testicular artery
  • artery to vas deferens
  • cremasteric artery

3 nerves:

  • ilioinguinal
  • T10
  • genital branch of genitofemoral

3 others:

  • pampiniform plexus
  • vas deferens (most prominent)
  • lymph vessels
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Prostate, seminal vesicles and bulbourethral gland

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PROSTATE
Responsible for 30% seminal fluid
Fibromuscular and glandular parts
Prostatic arteries supply (from inferior vesical artery)
Prostatic venous plexus drains to internal iliac
Lymph to internal iliac nodes

SEMINAL VESICLES
70% seminal fluid
5cm long coiled tubular glands
Between bladder fundus and rectum

BULBOURETHRAL
Make pre-ejaculate
Found within fibres of external urethral sphincter (don’t drain to ejaculatory duct)

33
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Testicular descent

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After 7th gestational month

Necessary, testes need to be 2º cooler

CRYPTORCHIDISM = undescended testes
1% children
Get caught on deep/superficial inguinal rings -> abdominal/inguinal testes
If caught lower down -> suprascrotal, may be ‘milked’ down
Increased risk of infertility and testicular cancer

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Erection and ejaculation

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Point and shoot

Parasympathetic and Sympathetic control

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Erectile dysfunction

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Inability to achieve or maintain an erection to sufficiently satisfy sexual intercourse

Causes:
In the young, often psychogenic (nervousness)

In 50+:

  • vascular (cholesterol, smoking, diabetes)
  • neurogenic (after prostate surgery)
  • drug-induced (anti-depressants, anti-hypertensives)
  • hormonal (rare - hypogonadism)

Treat with psychosexual therapy, viagra/sildenafil, topical prostaglandin, stop cause!

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Ectopic pregnancy

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Sudden onset (right iliac fossa) pain -\> rupture of embryonic sac in right fallopian tube
- consider appendicitis!

Should be implantation in fundus or body of uterus

  • 80% ampulla
  • 12% isthmus
  • 5% fimbriae
  • abdominal
  • cervical

11/1,000 pregnancies

Increased risk from IVF, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, surgery, IUD, previous ectopic pregnancy

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Laparoscopy

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= key hole surgery

3 (or 5) 1-2cm incisions

Scope in at umbilicus, other instruments elsewhere
Insert instrument to cervix to get uterus in right position

Diagnostic or therapeutic (ovarian torsion, ectopic pregnancy, endometriosis)

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