Pelvis Flashcards
Wide, medium pelvis with straight sidewalls
Gynecoid
Narrow all except convergent sidewalls, forward inclined sacral and heavy bone structure
Android
Divergent forepelvis and narrow sidewalls
Anthropoid
Straight forepelvis with wide sidewall
Platypelloid
Which conjugate can be measured using pelvimetry?
Diagonal conjugate (Directly measured)
How many cm DC?
12 cm or >11.5 cm
Shortest pelvic inlet dm?
Obstetric conjugate
How many cm is OC?
Subtract 1.5 - 2 cm from DC
How many cm is true conjugate?
Subtract -1cm to DC
4 bones of bony pelvis
2 hip bones/iliac
1 sacrum
1 coccyx
False and true pelvis separated by
Pelvic brim
Measurements of pelvic inlet? 4 answers
True, Obstetric and Diagonal conjugates + Transverse diameter (linea terminalis)
How many cm is transverse dm?
13 cm
Measurement of midpoane or plane of least pelvic dimension
Interspinous dm or bispinous dm
Measurement of outlet
Bituberous dm (8.5 cm by fist)
What muscle divides the greater and lesser sciatic foramen?
Piriformis muscle
What enters and exits both greater and lesser sciatic foramen?
PIO
Pudendal nerve
Internal pudendal vessels
Obturator internus nerve
What exits the lesser sciater foramen?
pinTO
Tendon of obturator internus
The only thing that exits above the piriformis muscle of greater sciatic foramen
Superior gluteal vessels and nerves
2 ligaments that divides the sciatic notches into greater and lesser sciatic foramen
SATS (both laterally)
SAcroTuberous ligament
SAcroSpinous ligament
Muscles torn during childbirth? 2 answers main and most medial muscle of levator ani
Puborectalis and pubococcygeus
Weakening of levator ani may result to ____ and ____?
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and urinary stress incontinence
Muscles of peLviC diaphragm?
Levator ani (3 sub muscles)
Coccygeus
Perineum is separated from pelvic cavity by
pelvic diaphragm