Recap lectures 11-12 (pelvis + perineum) Flashcards
Pelvis + perineum
What are the two main parts of the pelvic cavity? What marks where each begins?
1) Greater; Supracristal plane
2) Lesser; pelvic brim
What are the two main parts of the lesser pelvic cavity? What structures are located at each?
1) Pelvic inlet: Superior pubis to sacral promontory
2) Pelvic outlet: Inferior rami of pubis and Ischial tuberosities anterolaterally; tip of coccyx posterior
1) What do the Sacrospinous and sacrotuberous ligaments prevent?
2) What can they be responsible for?
1) Excessive lumbar lordosis during weight bearing
2) “Back pain”
1) What form the anterior inferior wall of the pelvis?
2) What form the lateral wall?
1) Body and rami of pubic bone; pubic symphysis
2) Boney hips, obturator foramen, membrane, muscle, vessels and nerves
1) Compare the pubic arches of male and female pelvises
2) Compare the thickness and heaviness of bones of male and female pelvises
1) Males have a narrower pubic arch < 70 degrees; females have a wide pubic arch > 80 degrees
2) Male pelvises have thick and heavy bones; females have thin and light boney structure
1) Compare the deepness of male and female greater pelvises
2) Compare the deepness of male and female lesser pelvises
1) Males’ greater pelvis is deep, females’ is shallow
2) Males’ lesser pelvis is narrow and deep; females’ is wide and shallow
1) Compare the inlet shapes of male and female pelvises
2) Compare the outlet shapes of male and female pelvises
1) Males’ inlet is heart-shaped; female inlet oval or rounded
2) Males’ outlet is smaller, female outlet larger
What is the pelvic floor also called?
Pelvic diaphragm
What 3 things cover the pelvic diaphragm?
Levator ani + coccygeus muscles + fascia
1) What forms the tendinous arch of levator ani? Where?
2) What are the two primary muscles that make up the levator ani?
1) Obturator fascia (thickened); ~ L5-S4
2) Pubococcygeus and iliococcygeus
What provide the blood and innervation to the perineal compartment? Where does the blood flow come from?
Pudendal vessels (come off anterior internal iliac) and pudendal nerves (lumbo-sacral nerves)
List the 4 main muscles of the pelvic walls.
Which of these makes up the lateral wall? What about the posterior wall?
1) Levator ani
2) Coccygeus m.
3) Obturator internus – lateral wall
4) Piriformis – posterior wall
What two main nerves are formed by the sacral plexus? What does each innervate?
1) Sciatic n.– posterior thigh and leg below knee
2) Pudendal n. – nerve to perineum
Besides the two main nerves of the sacral plexus, what else does it form? What does each innervate?
1) Superior gluteal n. – glut min, medius, TFL
2) Inferior gluteal n.– glut max
Where is the coccygeal plexus?
S4-5, Co1 to pelvic floor
1) Where does the sciatic nerve come from and where does it exit?
2) Where does the superior gluteal n come from and exit? What 3 muscles does it innervate?
1) L4 -S3, exits thru greater sciatic foramen, inferior to pyriformis m.
2) L4-S1, exits via greater sciatic foramen, supplies 3 muscles in glut region: gluteus Medius and Minimus mm., & TFL
1) Where does the pudendal nerve come from? What is the it main nerves of?
2) Where does it enter?
1) S2-S4, main nerve to the perineum and chief sensory nerve of the external genitalia
2) Enters perineum via lesser sciatic foramen
1) Where does the obturator nerve come from?
2) Where does it pass through?
3) What is it the primary nerve to?
1) L2-L4
2) Passes thru the pelvis BUT is not a pelvic nerve
3) Medial (adductor group) thigh
1) What do structures do at the greater sciatic foramen?
2) What muscle is located here?
3) What 4 nerves are here?
4) What else is located here?
1) Exit pelvis
2) Piriformis m. to femur
3) Sciatic nerve, pudendal nerve, superior/inferior gluteal n.
4) Vessels
1) What do structures do at the lesser sciatic foramen?
2) What muscle is located here?
3) What nerve is here?
1) Exit pelvis and re-enter perineal compartment
2) Obturator internus m.
3) Pudendal nerve
What does sympathetic innervation of the pelvis do? (3 things)
1) Vasomotion
2) Inhibit peristalsis of rectum
3) Stimulates contraction of genital organs during orgasm (ejaculation in males)
What does parasympathetic innervation of the pelvis do? (2 things)
1) Stimulate contraction of bladder and rectum
2) Supply erectile bodies of genitalia resulting in erection
What are the 3 main parts of pelvic autonomics?
1) Sympathetic
2) Parasympathetic
3) Periarterial plexuses
1) Reflex visceral afferents (not aware consciously) of the pelvis are conducted how? Where to?
2) How do pain visceral afferents (aware consciously) differ?
1) Via parasympathetic to spinal ganglia S2-3-4
2) Diff. based on “pelvic pain line” that corresponds to the inferior limit of the peritoneum
What are the pelvic viscera?
1) Distal parts of GI (rectum)
2) Distal Urinary tract
3) Reproductive system
What structures pass through the pelvic diaphragm to reach the perineal compartment? (3)
Rectum
Vagina
Urethra
1) Where is the rectum found?
2) Where are the vagina and urethra found?
1) Posterior triangle
2) Anterior urogenital triangle
1) _______________________ thru bladder wall acts as sphincter to prevent retrograde urine flow from ureters during voiding along with ___________________ at ureteral orifice at trigone
2) In males the ___________________ is related to the ureters
1) Oblique passage; circular m.
2) ductus deferens
1) What is the urinary bladder inferior to?
2) Where does it rest?
3) Where is the apex of the urinary bladder?
1) Peritoneum (subperitoneal)
2) Rests on pelvic floor
3) Anterior toward pubis
1) What is the trigone of the bladder?
2) What is the uvula of the bladder?
1) Triangle region with ureters and urethra orifice
2) Slight elevation of the trigone in the internal urethral orifice
1) What do the detrusor muscle fibers do near the neck of the male bladder? What does this do?
2) What do some of these detrusor muscle fibers do?
1) Form the involuntary internal urethral sphincter which contracts during ejaculation (sympathetic stimulation)
2) Run radially & assist in opening the internal urethral sphincter.
1) What are detrusor muscle fibers in the neck of the bladder continuous with in males?
2) What about in females?
1) Fibromuscular tissue of prostate
2) Muscle fibers of urethra
What are at the angles of the trigone of the bladder?
Ureteric orifices and internal urethral orifice
1) What supplies the bladder with blood?
2) Describe venous drainage of the bladder and include where they drain
1) Branches of the internal iliac aa.
2) Veins draining bladder correspond to arteries and drain into the internal iliac veins (Caval system)
Lymphatics from superior surface of bladder drain into _______________________, while those from the fundus drain into ________________________.
external iliac nodes; internal iliac nodes
1) What innervates the bladder sympathetically?
2) Sympathetic innervation that stimulates ejaculation simultaneously causes what? Why?
1) Sympathetic fibers from T11-L2 to pelvic plexus
2) Contraction of the internal urethral sphincter to prevent reflux of semen into the bladder
1) What innervates the bladder parasympathetically? (what fibers and plexus?)
2) What do they provide motor innervation to? What do they do in males?
3) When visceral afferent fibers stimulated by stretching, what happens in males? What suppresses this reflex?
1) Parasympathetic fibers from S2-3-4 via pelvic splanchnic n. to inferior hypogastric plexus
2) Motor to detrusor muscle & inhibitor to internal urethral sphincter in males
3) Detrusor m. contracts & the internal urethral sphincter relaxes and urine flows into the urethra; toilet training suppresses this reflex (along with external urethral sphincter)
Urethral glands homolog to ______________, common paraurethral duct bilaterally near external urethral orifice.
prostate
1) What somatically innervate the female urethra? (plexus and nerve)
2) What nerve viscerally innervates the female urethra? Where?
1) Vesicle nerve plexus and pudendal nerve (somatic)
2) Pelvic splanchnic n; most below pelvic pain line
1) The intramural part of the male urethra is surrounded by what?
2) What is this area’s innervation?
3) What does this area prevent?
4) ____________________ fibers are inhibitory to internal urethral sphincter resulting in relaxing of sphincter during voiding
1) Internal urethral sphincter
2) Sympathetic innervated smooth muscle
3) Retrograde ejaculation
4) Parasympathetic fibers
1) What part of the male urethra is surrounded by external urethral sphincter?
2) What primarily controls continence?
1) Intermediate (membranous)
2) Tonic and phasic contraction of external urethra sphincter
What are the 4 parts of the male urethra?
1) Intramural
2) Prostatic urethra
3) Intermediate (membranous)
4) Spongy urethra
1) What does parasympathetic stimulation do during micturition?
2) The _______________________ is under somatic control and is inhibited during micturition
1) Causes the detrusor muscle to contract & inhibits the internal urethral sphincter.
2) external urethral sphincter
To gain voluntary control over micturition, infants must learn to suppress and stimulate what?
1) Suppress: the visceral afferent urge to void
2) Stimulate: the somatic motor of external urethral sphincter
1) What muscle is in the wall of the bladder and is involved in micturition?
2) What form the “involuntary” internal urethral sphincter?
3) What is the “voluntary” (Somatic) sphincter and where is it?
1) Detrusor muscle in wall of bladder
2) Neck of bladder muscles
3) External urethral sphincter; above perineal membrane
1) What is stress incontinence?
2) What causes it?
3) Who is it more common in?
4) How is it treated?
1) Leakage when cough, sneeze, run, jump
2) Weak external sphincter/pelvic floor
3) Older parous women - post vaginal deliveries
4) Manage with PT
1) What is urge incontinence?
2) What causes it?
3) How it it managed?
1) “GOTA GO NOW!!!!”
2) Detrusor instability
3) With Rx
1) What is the ductus deferens?
2) Where does it ascend? Where does it pass through?
3) Where does it cross over to enter the pelvis? What does it pass retroperitoneally?
4) Where does it end?
1) Continuation of the duct of epididymis from inferior pole of testis
2) In the spermatic cord; passes through the inguinal canal
3) External iliac vessels; passes along the lateral pelvic wall
4) By joining the duct of the seminal gland to form the ejaculatory duct
1) Where are the seminal glands (vesicles)?
2) What fluid do they secrete? What does it do?
3) What part of the seminal glands is covered in peritoneum?
1) Lie obliquely between the fundus of bladder and rectum
2) Alkaline fluid, mixes with sperm, major contributor to volume of semen ~ 75%
3) Superior aspect
1) What are ejaculatory ducts?
2) Where do they pass through?
3) Where do they open and how?
1) Tube arising from union of vas deferens and seminal gland duct
2) Posterior prostate
3) By slit like apertures on or within the prostatic utricle
What are the two divisions of the prostate? Define each.
Which one incorporates the prostatic plexus?
1) Glandular part 2/3
2) Fibromuscular 1/3: dense fibromuscular capsule
-Incorporates the prostatic plexus of nerves and veins
1) What part of the prostate contributes to the external urethral sphincter?
2) What part of the prostate is palpable via DRE?
1) Muscular anterior surface (AMZ)
2) Posterior surface related to the ampulla of the rectum
1) How many prostatic ducts open into prostatic sinuses?
2) Where are the prostatic sinuses?
1) 20+
2) On either side of seminal colliculus on posterior wall of the prostatic urethra