Urinary Incontinence and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Flashcards
What is the function of the kidneys?
- removes waste products of metabolism
- excess water and salts from the blood
- maintain the pH
What anatomy is part of the female genitourinary system?
- 2 kidneys
- 2 ureters
- urinary bladder
- urethra
What is the function of the ureters?
convey urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder
Where does the ureter lie?
upper half - abdomen
lower half - pelvis
What is the average dimensions of the ureters?
- 3mm in diameter
- 25cm long
Where is the ureter slightly constricted?
- pelvic ureteric junction
- pelvic brim
- passing through the bladder wall
What are the 3 layers of tissue in the ureter?
- outer fibrous tissue
- middle muscle layer
- inner epithelium layer
What is the blood supply of the ureter?
related to region: - renal/lumbar/gonadal/common iliac - internal iliac - superior vesical arteries (corresponding venous drainage)
What are the lymphatic management of the ureters?
Left ureter: - left para-aortic nodes Right ureter: - right paracaval - interaortocaval lymph nodes
What is the nerve supply of the ureter?
autonomic nervous system
What is the bladder?
a muscular reservoir of urine
Where is the bladder located?
empty: pelvic
full: abdomino-pelvic
What are the layers of the bladder?
outer: loose connective tissue
middle: smooth muscle and elastic fibres
inner: transitional epithelium
What is the blood supply of the bladder?
- superior and inferior vesical branches of the internal iliac
- drained by the vesical plexus which drains into the internal iliac vein
What is the lymphatics of the bladder?
- internal iliac nodes
- para-aortic nodes
What is the nerve supply of the bladder?
autonomic nervous system
What is the female urethra?
channel from the neck of the bladder to the exterior (at the external urethral orifice)
Describe the structure of the urethra at the neck of the bladder?
- internal urethral sphincter
- thickened detrusor muscle
- smooth muscle
- involuntary control
Describe the structure of the urethra at the exterior?
- external urethral sphincter
- skeletal muscle
- voluntary control
What is the female blood supply of the urethra?
- internal pudenal arteries
- inferior vesicle branches of the vaginal arteries
What is the lymphatic system of the female urethra?
- proximal urethra into internal iliac nodes
- distal urethra into the superficial inguinal lymphnodes
What is the nerve supply of the female urethra?
- vesical plexus
- pudendeal nerve
What anatomy is part of the male genitourinary system?
- 2 kidneys
- 2 ureters
- urinary bladder
- prostate
- urethra
What is the venous drainage of the bladder in males?
prostatic venous plexus which drains into the internal iliac vein
What is the function of the prostate?
secrete 75% of seminal fluid which liquifies coagulated semen after deposition in the female genital tract
Where is the prostate?
- lies below the bladder
- surrounds the proximal part of the urethra
What are the 3 parts of the prostate?
- left lateral lobe
- right lateral lobe
- middle lobe
What is the blood supply of the prostate?
- inferior vesicle artery
- venous drainage: prostatic plexus to the vesical plexus and the internal iliac vein
What are the lymphatics of the prostate?
internal and sacral nodes
What are the nerve supply of the prostate?
autonomic nervous system
Where is the urethra in males?
through:
- neck of the bladder
- prostate gland
- floor of the pelvis
- perineal membrane
- penis
- external urethral orifice
What are the 3 parts of the male urethra?
- prostatic
- membranous
- spongy