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Limbs 4 Flashcards

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What are the two routes of venous return in the lower limb?

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  • deep (accompanying arteries)
  • superficial (close to limb surface)
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What do many of the deep distal veins form?

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Venae comitantes

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What are the main deep veins of the lower limbs?

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  • femoral vein
  • deep femoral vein
  • anterior tibial vein
  • posterial tibial vein
  • popliteal vein
  • peroneal vein
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What are venae comitantes?

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Multiple veins forming a network of smaller veins with arteries which they accompany

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What are the benefits of veins forming venae comitantes?

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  • heats exchange
  • arteries promote venous flow
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What allows only distal to proximal blood flow in the lower limb veins?

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Valves in the veins

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What is the calf pump?

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  • deep veins are sandwiched between layers of calf muscles
  • contraction of muscles squeezes deep veins pushing blood towards heart
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What are the main superficial veins of the lower limb?

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Long and short saphenous vein

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9
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Where do the superficial veins arise from?

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Dorsal venous network of the foot

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What do the saphenous veins drain into?

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  • long = femoral vein
  • short = popliteal vein
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Where does the long saphenous vein run from?

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  • on medial side of leg
  • passes anterior to the medial malleolus at the ankle
  • continues superiorly and medially in the leg
  • more posteriorly at the knee
  • medial in the thigh until the vein passes anterior to the femoral triangle
  • drains into the femoral vein through the saphenous opening in fascia lata
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Where does the short saphenous vein run from?

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  • lateral side of leg
  • passes posteriorly to the lateral malleolus at the ankle
  • runs superiorly on the posterior
  • drains into the popliteal vein after piercing the fascia over the popliteal fossa
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13
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What can the superficial veins of the lower limb be used for?

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Can be harvested for venous grafts, mostly coronoary artery bypass grafts

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What happens if the valves which allow blood flow from superficial to deep veins are compromised?

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  • varicose veins
  • blood is pushed from deep to superficial veins
  • deep venouse return is slowed down
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What do varicose veins increase the risk of?

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DVT due to sluggish deep venous return

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What are the two areas of nodes on the lower limb?

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  • popliteal nodes
  • inguinal nodes
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17
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What do the popliteal nodes drain?

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Distal limb (legs, toes)

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What do the inguinal nodes drain?

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  • lower limb
  • pudendal region
  • perineum
  • anus
  • parts of lower abdomen
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What is the superficial drainage of the lymphnodes?

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  • posterior lymph vessels run with short saphenous vein
  • drain into popliteal nodes in popliteal fossa
  • lymph nodes continue in association with femoral vein
  • vessels running with long saphenous vein drain into superficial inguinal nodes in inguinal region close to saphenous opening and inguinal ligament
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What is the deep lymphatic drainage of the lower limb?

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  • most drainage of the distal lower limb drains into the deep inguinal nodes
  • some also drains into popliteal nodes
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21
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Where does lymphatic drainage of the lower limb go up to?

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Drainage via iliac vessels passing through iliac nodes

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22
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What are the important anatomical spaces of the lower limb?

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  • femoral triangle
  • popliteal fossa
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23
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What are the borders of the femoral triangle?

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24
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What is the femoral triangle covered by?

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Skin and deep fascia (fascia lata)

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What runs through the opening in the fascia lata?

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Long saphenous vein entering the triangle to drain into femoral vein

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What does the femoral triangle contain?

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  • femoral nerve
  • femoral artery
  • femoral vein
  • superficial and deep lymphnodes
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27
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What happens when the femoral nerve enters the femoral triangle?

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Branches into many smaller nerves to supply its muscular and cutaneous targets

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28
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What can be palpated in the femoral triangle?

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Arterial pulse

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29
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What can the femoral artery and vein be accessed for in the femoral triangle?

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Catheterisation for procedures involving coronary arteries or other parts of the heart

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30
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What is the popliteal fossa?

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Diamond shaped opening in the back of the knee

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What are the borders of the popliteal fossa?

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What does the popliteal fossa contain?

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  • tibial and common peroneal nerves
  • popliteal artery and vein
  • popliteal lymph nodes
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What can be palpated at the popliteal fossa?

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Pulse of the popliteal artery

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34
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Which nerve leaves the popliteal fossa at the head of the fibula and what does it divide into?

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  • common fibular nerve
  • divides into superficial and deep fibular nerves
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35
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What forms the tibial and common peroneal nerves?

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Bifurcation of the sciatic nerve

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36
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What is the adductor canal?

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  • muscle-lined gutter
  • starts at the inferior apex of the femoral triangle and ends at the hiatus of adductor magnus
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37
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What passes through the adductor canal?

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  • saphenous nerve
  • femoral artery and vein
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38
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What is the tarsal tunnel?

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  • channel between the medial malleolus and the calcaneus
  • overlayed by flexor retinaculum
39
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Which vessels enter the foot via the tarsal tunnel?

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Posterior tibial artery and tibial nerve

40
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Label this diagram of the tarsal tunnel

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41
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What is the clinical importance of the arteries of the lower limb?

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  • supply blood to tissues
  • can be used to assess vascular health
  • can be used to access the heart for cardiac procedures e.g angioplasty, angiography
42
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Which arteries supply most of the lower limb?

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  • left and right iliac arteries
  • found in the iliac regions of the pelvis
43
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How does the abdominal aorta give rise to the iliac arteries?

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  • abdominal aorta bifurcates into left and right common iliac arteries
  • common iliac arteries bifurcate into internal and external iliac arteries
44
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What does the internal iliac artery supply?

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  • buttock and lateral thigh
  • smaller branch of common iliac artery
45
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What does the external iliac artery supply?

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  • forms femoral artery
  • supplies rest of the limb and medial thigh
  • larger branch of the common iliac artery
46
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What are the arteries of the hip, buttock and thigh?

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  • external iliac artery
  • deep femoral artery
  • femoral artery
  • popliteal artery
  • superior and inferior gluteal arteries
47
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Where does the external iliac artery become the deep femoral artery?

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When it passes into the thigh behind the deep inguinal ligament

48
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Where does the deep femoral artery become the popliteal artery?

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When it goes from running anteriorly down thigh to posteriorly into the popliteal fossa

49
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What is the deep femoral artery a branch of?

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The femoral artery

50
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What is the main artery of the thigh?

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Deep femoral artery

51
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What is the hiatus of adductor magnus?

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Opening in the adductor magnus muscle which gives rise to the adductor canal

52
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What is the blood supply of the head of the femur?

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  • lateral and medial circumflex arteries (mostly medial)
  • ligament of the head of the femur
53
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At what stage in life is the artery of the head of the femur important?

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In children, helps with growing bone

54
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What can happen when the head of the femur has an intracapsular fracture?

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  • arteries become damaged
  • avascular necrosis of the femoral head
55
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What are the main arteries of the knee, leg and foot?

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  • femoral artery
  • popliteal artery
  • genicular (knee) branches
  • tibial artery
  • anterior tibial artery
  • posterior tibial artery
  • peroneal artery
  • medial plantar artery
  • lateral plantar artery
  • dorsal pedis artery
56
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Label this diagram of the arteries of the knee, leg and foot

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57
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Which pulses can be palpated in the knee, leg and foot?

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  • popliteal pulse
  • medial tibial pulse
  • dorsalis pedis pulse
  • determine vascular health of the lower limb
58
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What does the dorsalis pedis artery give rise to?

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Arcuate artery

59
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What do the lateral and medial plantar arteries give rise to?

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Plantar arch

60
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What is a nerve plexus?

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  • network of nerves
  • formed when peripheral spinal nerve roots merge and split
  • new multi-segmental peripheral nerves arise from plexus
61
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What is the main plexus which supplies the lower limb?

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Lumbo-sacral plexus

62
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Which three nerves arise form the lumbar part of the lumbo-sacral plexus?

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  • lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh
  • femoral nerve
  • obturator nerve
63
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Fibres from which level form the lumbosacral trunk?

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L4 and L5

64
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Which nerves of the sacral part of the lumbosacral plexus supply the lower limb?

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  • superior and inferior gluteal nerves
  • posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh
  • sciatic nerve
65
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What is the sciatic nerve made up of?

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  • common peroneal part
  • tibial part
66
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What does the superior gluteal nerve supply?

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L4-S1

67
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What does the inferior gluteal nerve supply?

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L5-S2

68
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What does the femoral nerve supply?

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L2-L4

69
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Where does the femoral nerve fun from?

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  • descends through pelvis
  • passes under inguinal ligament into pelvic triangle laterally
  • divides into a number of muscular and cutaneous branches to the anterior thigh
  • terminal branch is the saphenous nerve
  • travels through adductor canal then superficially to anteromedial ascpects of the knee, leg and foot
70
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What does the obturator nerve supply?

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L2-L4

71
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Where does the obturator nerve run from?

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  • emerges on medial border of the psoas muscle
  • runs inferiorly and anteriorly in the pelvis
  • passes through obturator foramen to supply adductor muscles of the medial compartment
72
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Which nerve supplies the hamstring part of the adductor magnus?

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Tibial part of the sciatic nerve

73
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What does the sciatic nerve supply?

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L4-S3, biggest nerve in the body

74
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What does the sciatic nerve divide into?

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Tibial and fibular nerves

75
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Which nerve runs close to the sciatic nerve?

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Posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh

76
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What is the piriformis muscle?

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  • one of the lateral rotator groups of gluteal muscles
  • important landmark for the nerves and vessels of the gluteal region
77
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How does the piriformis act as a landmark for the nerves and vessels of the gluteal region?

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Nerves and vessels pass from the buttock into the interior pelvis either superiorly or inferiorly to the piriformis

78
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Where does the superior gluteal nerve enter the pelvis and what does it innervate?

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  • above piriformis through greater sciatic foramen
  • innervates gluteus medius, minimus and tensor fascia lata
79
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What does the inferior gluteal nerve supply?

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L5-S2

80
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Where does the inferior gluteal nerve enter the pelvis and what does it innervate?

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  • inferior to the piriformis via the greater sciatic foramen
  • gluteus maximus only
81
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Which other nerves enter the pelvis inferior to the piriformis?

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Sciatic nerve and posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh

82
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What are the main nerves of the anterior and lateral leg?

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  • common peroneal (fibular) nerve
  • bifurcates into superficial and deep peroneal nerves
83
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What does the superficial peroneal nerve innervate?

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  • lateral muscles
  • skin of dorsum of foot
84
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What do the deep peroneal nerves innervate?

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  • anterior muscles
  • skin of cleft between first and second toes
85
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Where does the common peroneal nerve run from?

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  • leaves popliteal fossa laterally
  • winds around head of fibula
  • bifurcates into deep and superficial peroneal nerves
86
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What are the main nerves of the posterior leg and foot?

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  • tibial nerve
  • branches into medial and lateral plantar nerves
87
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What does the tibial nerve innervate?

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Superficial and deep muscle compartments of the posterior leg

88
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Where does the tibial nerve run from?

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  • passes distally through popliteal fossa into posterior leg
  • runs on surface of tibialis posterior
  • travels posteriorly to the medial malleolus
  • passes under plantar aponeurosis where it divides into lateral and medial plantar nerves
89
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Why are the dermatomes of the anterior lower limb distorted, resulting in the anterior dermatome running obliquely?

A

Twisting of lower limb during fetal development

90
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What is the general pattern of the dermatomes of the anterior lower limb?

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L3 to the knee, L4 to the floor

91
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What are autonomous sensory zones?

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Regions of non-overlapping sensory supply from an individual spinal root

92
Q

What is useful to know about innervation of the lower limb?

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The dermatomes and peripheral cutaneous nerve fields do not match

93
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Why do the dermatomes and cutaneous nerve fields not match?

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  • cutaneous nerves are formed in a plexus
  • cutaneous nerves will have fibres from multiple spinal nerves

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