Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
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.
- Right crus of diaphragm
- Right kidney
- Abdominal aorta (cut off)
- Sympathetic trunk (pointer on ganglion of sympathetic trunk)
- Intervertebral disc L. II-III
- Lumbar artery and vein (cut off)
- Psoas major muscle
- Quadratus lumborum muscle covered by transversalis fascia
- Iliohypogastric nerve (faintly visible)
- Ilioinguinal nerve
- Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve
- Genitofemoral nerve
- Ureter
- Middle sacral artery
- Common iliac artery and vein
- Lumbosacral trunk
- Obturator nerve
- Medial lumbocostal arch
- Diaphragm (lateral lumbocostal arch lies in area between pointers)
- Rib XII
- Thoracic nerve XII (subcostal nerve)
- Muscular branch of nerve L. II
- Genitofemoral nerve
- Lumbar nerve II
- Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve
- Lumbar nerve III
- Psoas major muscle
- Quadratus lumborum muscle
- Lumbar nerve IV
- Iliac crest
- Iliacus muscle