Ruminant Abdomen Flashcards
What are the boundaries of the flank?
Dorsal-Epaxial muscles
Cranial-Last rib
Ventral-Horizontal line through the level of the stifle
What are the boundaries of the paralumbar fossa?
Dorsal-Epaxial muscles
Cranial-last rib
Caudoventral- Tension line in IAO
Where is the belly?
Ventral to horizontal line from the stifle
What are the abdominal wall layers?
- Skin
- Cutaneous trunci
- Superficial abdominal fascia
- EAO
- IAO
- TA
- RA
- Transverse fascia
- Parietal peritoneum
What innervates the cutaneous trunci m?
Lateral thoracic
What does the the superficial abdominal fascia contain?
- Cutaneous trunci
- Preputial m
- Vessels
- Nerves
- Subiliac LN
Where is the subiliac LN?
1/2 between tuber coxae and fold of flank
What does the subiliac LN drain?
Superficial layers of the body wall and skin and superficial muscles of the thigh and croup
What is the milk vein?
Subcutaneous abdominal v. Formed by an anastomosis of cranial and caudal superficial epigastric vein during first pregnancy
What is the milk well?
Milk vein courses cranially from the udder to enter the thorax through an opening in the ventral thoracic wall
Which way does blood flow in the milk vein?
Can flow either direction
Where are the superficial inguinal LN?
Associated with external pudendal a and v. More caudal than the horse and palpated in the perineal region dorsal to udder or scrotum
What is the tunica flava abdominis?
- Composed of elastic tissue
- Attached to underlying muscle and supports heavy viscera
- Origin of medial lamina of suspensory apparatus of udder
What makes up the external rectus sheath?
IAO and EAO
What makes up the internal rectus sheath?
TA and transversalis fascia
What nerves must be blocked to do flank surgery?
T13, L1, L2