Adductor Canal

Question 1

What is the adductor canal?

Answer 1

A narrow conical tunnel

Question 2

Where is the adductor canal located?

Answer 2

In the thigh

Question 3

How long is the adductor canal?

Answer 3

15cm

Question 4

Where does the adductor canal extend?

Answer 4

From the apex of the femoral triangle to the adductor hiatus of the adductor magus

Question 5

What does the adductor canal serve as?

Answer 5

A passageway for structures moving between the anterior thigh and posterior leg

Question 6

What are the borders of the adductor canal?

Answer 6

Anterior
Lateral
Posterior

Question 7

What forms the anterior border of the adductor canal?

Answer 7

Sartorius

Question 8

What forms the lateral border of the adductor canal?

Answer 8

Vastus medialis

Question 9

What forms the posterior border of the adductor canal?

Answer 9

Adductor longus and adductor magnus

Question 10

What marks the apex of the adductor canal?

Answer 10

The adductor hiatus

Question 11

What is the adductor hiatus?

Answer 11

A gap between the adductor and hamstring attachments of the adductor magnus

Question 12

What does the adductor canal contain?

Answer 12

The femoral artery, vein and nerve to the vastus medialis, and the saphenous nerve

Question 13

What is the saphenous nerve?

Answer 13

The largest cutaneous branch of the femoral nerve

Question 14

What happen as the femoral artery and vein exit the canal?

Answer 14

They become the popliteal artery and vein

Question 15

What happens in the adductor canal block?

Answer 15

Local anaesthetic is administered in the adductor canal to block the saphenous nerve in isolation, or together with the nerve to the vastus medialis

Question 16

What is the adductor canal block used to do?

Answer 16

Provide sensory anaesthesia for procedures involving the distal thigh and femur, knee and lower leg on the medial side

Question 17

What are the sartorius and femoral artery used as?

Answer 17

Anatomical landmarks to locate the saphenous nerve

Question 18

What does adductor canal compression syndrome describe?

Answer 18

Entrapment of the neurovascular bundle with the adductor canal

Question 19

How common is adductor canal compression syndrome?

Answer 19

Rare

Question 20

What is adductor canal compression syndrome?

Answer 20

Hypertrophy of adjacent muscles such as the vastus medialis

Question 21

Who is adductor canal compression syndrome most common in?

Answer 21

Young males

Question 22

How may adductor canal compression syndrome present?

Answer 22

Claudication symptoms

Neurological symptoms

Question 23

Why does adductor canal compression syndrome present with claudication symptoms?

Answer 23

Due to femoral artery occlusion

Question 24

Why does adductor canal compression present with neurological symptoms?

Answer 24

Due to entrapment of the saphenous nerve