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Kidneys, suprarenal glands and posterior abdominal vessels, nerves and muscles

Psoas major muscle reflected; lumbar plexus and nerves to psoas major

Image #151-6

KEYWORDS: Adrenal gland, Kidney, Muscles and tendons, Peripheral nervous system, Vasculature.

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Kidneys, suprarenal glands and posterior abdominal vessels, nerves and muscles

Psoas major muscle reflected; lumbar plexus and nerves to psoas major

The left psoas major has been detached from its spinal origins and turned laterally . Nerves to the psoas , as well as the major parts of the lumbar plexus, have been exposed.

1 .	Right crus of diaphragm
2 .	Right kidney
3 .	Abdominal aorta (cut off)
4 .	Sympathetic trunk (pointer on ganglion of sympathetic trunk)
5 .	Intervertebral disc L. II-III
6 .	Lumbar artery and vein (cut off)
7 .	Psoas major muscle
8 .	Quadratus lumborum muscle covered by transversalis fascia
9 .	Iliohypogastric nerve (faintly visible)
10 .	Ilioinguinal nerve
11 .	Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve
12 .	Genitofemoral nerve
13 .	Ureter
14 .	Middle sacral artery
15 .	Common iliac artery and vein
16 .	Lumbosacral trunk
17 .	Obturator nerve
18 .	Medial lumbocostal arch
19 .	Diaphragm (lateral lumbocostal arch lies in area between pointers)
20 .	Rib XII
21 .	Thoracic nerve XII (subcostal nerve)
22 .	Muscular branch of nerve L. II
23 .	Genitofemoral nerve
24 .	Lumbar nerve II
25 .	Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve
26 .	Lumbar nerve III
27 .	Psoas major muscle
28 .	Quadratus lumborum muscle
29 .	Lumbar nerve IV
30 .	Iliac crest
31 .	Iliacus muscle