Recap lecture 10 abdomen Flashcards
What are the 4 main parts of the abdomen?
1) Abdominal wall
2) Abdominal cavity
3) Peritoneal cavity
4) Viscera
What innervates the viscera pre-splenic flexure?
Vagus nerve
What does the pelvic brim separate?
Greater pelvis of abdominal cavity and lesser pelvis of pelvic cavity
What is the superior part of the ilium bones called?
Iliac crest
1) What is the most medial anterior part of the pelvis called?
2) What is superior and slightly lateral to this?
1) Symphysis
2) Pubic tubercle
What is the importance of the linea alba?
If you cut vertically down it you won’t cut through muscle.
(goes from xyphoid process, through umbilicus, to pubic symphysis)
What are the layers of the anterolateral abdominal wall? (from superficial to deep)
1) Skin
2) Superficial fascia (SQ)
3) Investing (deep) fascia
4) Endo-abdominal fascia
5) Extraperitoneal fat
6) Parietal peritoneum
What covers external aspects of 3 muscle layers of abdominal wall and their aponeurosis?
Investing (deep) fascia
What are the two layers of the superficial fascia of the anterolateral abdominal wall? Describe each
1) Camper fascia: fatty layer
2) Scarpa fascia: deep membranous layer
Where is the superficial fascia of the abdomen found? How many layers does it have?
Inferior to umbilicus; 2 layers
What does the parietal peritoneum line?
Abdominal cavity
Where in the abdomen is there a potential space for fluid/infection to spread?
Between scarpa fascia and deep fascia covering abdominal muscles
What does the Scarpa fascia attach and fuse to?
Attaches to pubic bone and fuses with deep fascia of thigh
List the 5 paired muscles of the abdominal wall
-3 flat muscles: External oblique, internal oblique, transversus abdominis mm.
-2 vertical muscles: Rectus abdominis, pyramidalis mm.
What forms the aponeurosis anterior?
Flat muscle
1) What encloses the rectus abdominis?
2) What does enclosing structure then form at the midline?
1) Rectus sheath
2) Linea alba
Where does the linea alba run from and to?
Xyphoid to pubic symphysis
What are the anterolateral abdominal muscles? (6)
1) Obliques: EO, IO, TA
2) Rectus: rectus sheath, linea alba
3) Pyramidalis
1) What encloses the pyramidalis muscle? Where is it?
2) What does it arise from and insert into?
3) When does it tense?
1) Rectus sheath; pyramidalis is anterior to inferior part of rectus m.
2) Arises from pubic crest, inserts into linea alba
3) During Valsalva maneuver
What is the aponeurosis of flat abdominal muscles?
Rectus sheath
What are the 3 sections of the rectus sheath?
1) Superior to arcuate line
2) Arcuate line
3) Inferior to arcuate line
Superior to the arcuate line:
1) What makes up the anterior rectus?
2) What makes up the posterior rectus?
1) Anterior: EO fascia + anterior lamina of IO
2) Posterior: Posterior lamina of IO + TA fascia
(eo is external oblique, io is internal oblique, TA is transversus abdominis
1) Where is the arcuate line?
2) What does it demarcate?
1) 1/3 distance from umbilicus to pubic symphysis
2) The transition between the posterior rectus sheath covering the superior ¾ of the rectus abdominis proximally, and the transversalis fascia covering the inferior ¼
At the arcuate line, what pierce the posterior rectus sheath to provide blood to rectus muscle?
Inferior epigastric arteries and veins