Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
Dissection of female pelvis froma lateral approach
Contents of greater sciatic foramen, close-up lateral view
Image #159-1
KEYWORDS: Muscles and tendons.
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Dissection of female pelvis froma lateral approach
Contents of greater sciatic foramen, close-up lateral view
The specimen has been rotated slightly and is viewed here from a somewhat posterolateral direction.
- Lateral sacral crest
- Piriform muscle (emerging through greater sciatic foramen)
- Inferior gluteal artery (cut off)
- Inferior gluteal veins
- Upper pointer: Nerve to obturator internus muscle (cut off) Lower pointer: Inferior gluteal nerve
- Left pointer: Middle cluneal nerve (traced from dorsal ramus of 2nd sacral nerve) Right pointer: Coccygeal branch of inferior gluteal artery
- Left pointer: Sacrotuberous ligament Right pointer: Sacrospinous ligament
- Pudendal nerve (passing through lesser sciatic foramen)
- Internal pudendal artery
- Superior gluteal artery
- Superior gluteal vein
- Superior gluteal nerve
- Parietal pelvic fascia (completing closure of greater sciatic foramen)
- Sciatic nerve (upper pointer, tibial nerve; lower pointer, common peroneal nerve)
- Margin of greater sciatic foramen
- Acetabular labrum
- Levator ani muscle
- Margin of lesser sciatic foramen