Interval 5 Flashcards
Location of pelvic viscera:
lesser pelvis
-pelvic diaphragm: major muscle is levator ani
Perineum:
- space that contains any structure below the pelvic diaphragm
- where the roots of the male/female external genitalia is found
Components of pelvic bone:
- ilium
- between the ilium and ischium on the lateral (back) side is the tuberosity
- ischium (posterior)
- pubis (anterior)
Fusion of the innominate bones:
- articulate anteriorly at the pubic symphysis *ischium dont touch
- articulate posteriorly with the sacrum at sacroiliac joints *the ilium dont touch
Pelvic brim:
series of bony parts that separate greater and lesser pelvis
Greater pelvis:
part of the abdominal wall
Male versus female pelvis:
FEMALE:
- shallower pelvis
- opening is wider
- oval pelvic inlet
- ischiopubic rami is wider angle (thumb and index)
MALE:
- pelvic inlet is heart shaped
- ischiopubic rami is index and middle finger
Female pubic bone:
- true obstetric conjugate: anterior - posterior line typically slightly greater than 10 cm
- interspinous distance (ischial spine to the other): transverse plane - smallest diameter
Pelvic diaphrams:
- two skeletal muscle diaphragms (like the abdominal skeletal muscle diaphragm)
- pelvic: funnel shaped, external anal sphincter
- urogenital diaphragm: stretched across the width of the perineum, skeletal muscle, shorter, sphincter urethrae
- tonic contraction of these keeps bowl movement in
Pelvic diaphragm:
-3 parts, named after the bone that makes them up
1) Levator ani:
- Pubococcygeus(vagina/prostate and anorectal) and puborectalis (form sling for anterior part of anal canal): pubic bone
- Illiococcygeus
2) ischio coccygeus - funnel SHAPE and attach to ligament by the coccyx
- supports the bladder and the prostate gland
What transverses the pelvic diaphragm?
- female: urethra, vagina, anal canal
- male: urethra, anal canal
Obturator internus:
-blocks ischio coccygeus from having bony attachment so attaches to the tendinous arch of obturator fascia
Pudental neurovascular bundle:
- ventral rami that innervate the skeletal muscle of the two diaphragms and providing voluntary control of the sphincter
- S2, 3, 4
Ischioanal fossa
-tissue and fat that can be distended when fecal components stretch the anal canal
Internal sphincter muscle and innervation:
-smooth muscle, sympathetic innervation
Extrernal sphincter muscle:
- skeletal
- maintains urinary contents
- both sexes
- urogenital diaphragm location
Bladder:
- wall muscle is detrusor smooth muscle, contraction empties urine
- urethra in males transverse the length of the prostate, female it is shorter
- transitional epithelium
Prostate:
-release seminal fluid into the urethra via ejaculatory ducts
Internal urethral sphincter
- prevents reflux of sperm and seminal fluid into the bladder
- males (small in females)
- above the prostate, before the bladder
- smooth muscle, sympathetic control
transparent peritoneum
-covers the pelvic viscera
Rectovesical pouch
- reflection between the posterior bladder and anterior rectum
- most inferior extent of the male peritoneal cavity
- potential space normally filled up by gut structures or the rectum pushing up against the bladder
Seminal vesicle:
-second gland that like the prostate produces seminal fluid
Male continuous duct system:
- epididymous -> ductus deferens -> ejaculatory duct (where the seminal vesicle and ductus merge above the prostate)
ductus: courses in close proximity to the seminal vesicle
ductus deferens:
- water under the bridge (ductus goes obliquely to urether
- runs medial to the seminal vesicle
Prostate cancer:
- peripheral zone: site of adenocarcinoma, contains true prostatic glands POSTERIOR thats why the finger can push against the anterior wall of the rectum which is against the posterior wall of the prostate and can feel whether there is a metastatic condition there
- periurethral zone: sites of BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia) ANTERIOR
Female peritoneal reflection points:
- two due to the presence of the uterus
- vesicouterine and rectouterine pouch of Douglas more significant and deeper (most inferior portion of the female peritoneal cavity)
Vestibule
-common chamber into which the short urethra terminates and inferior opening of the vagina
Posterior fornix:
-arch shaped space where the rectouterine pouch extends between the uterus and rectum
Angles of flexion from the uterus folding over the bladder:
-uterus is anteverted and antiflexed
Broad ligament:
peritoneal covering of the uterus, uterine tubes, ovaries (it is a mesentery with a front and back)
- mesentery: double layer of peritoneum
- the clear covering that dr. white covered himself (the uterus) with
Secondarily peritoneal:
- uterus, uterine tubes, ovaries
- didnt start out with a peritoneum during development but then developed one later
Parts of the broad ligament:
- mesosalpinx
- mesovarium
- mesometrium
Cardinal ligament:
- each of the ureters passes through the base of the broad ligament
- this is the fascia that supports the uterus
Immediately after ovulation where is the ovum?
- inside the peritoneal cavity after passing through the peritoneum covering the ovary
- each uterine tube punches a hole in the peritoneal wall to allow this to go out
- females more likely to get peritonitus because of these two tiny holes in the peritoneum
Ampulla of the uterine tube:
- inside the peritoneal cavity
- site of fertilization and ectopic implantation
Ovary and peritoneal cavity
-ovary is not in the cavity but extrudes the secondary oocyte into the peritoneal cavity
subpubic symphysis:
where the ischiopubic rami unite
divisions of the pelvic outlet:
- urogenital triangle: directly behind the pubic symphysis
- anal triangle: posterior to the urogenital
- lateral border of both at the ischial tuberosities
perineal body:
central tendon of the perineum
-midline between the ischial tuberosities
Pelvis divisions:
greater (false) - contains iliacus muscle, shallower in females
lesser (true) - formed by the hipbones
pelvic diaphragm innervation:
skeletal muscle innervated directly by ventral rami S2 and S3 spinal nerves and of the pudendal nerve
Ischioanal fossa:
encloses the pelvic diaphragm
fat and CT
Where does the pelvic diaphram insert?
coccyx
Bladder:
- retroperitoneal
- superior aspect covered by peritoneum which reflects on anterior aspect of uterus (vesicouterine pouch) or rectum (rectovesical pouch)
- located below/posterior to the pubic bone