Dissection of male pelvis from a lateral approach
Close-up view of ureterovesical junction
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Image #169-5
Dissection of male pelvis from a lateral approach
Close-up view of ureterovesical junction
The central area of the specimen shown in the previous photograph is viewed here to display in more detail the structures that lie immediately adjacent to the ureterovesical junction. The smooth muscle and fibrous tissue that surrounds the pelvic plexus and forms the lateral ligament of the bladder has been preserved. Areolar tissue has been removed from other parts of the specimen.
- External iliac lymph node
- Upper pointer: Ductus deferens Lower pointer: Parietal peritoneum (external aspect)
- Obturator nerve
- Upper pointer: Obturator artery (cut off) Lower pointer: Superior vesical artery
- Urinary bladder
- Ilium (cut away)
- Middle vesical artery
- Inferior vesical artery
- Vesical veins (cut off)
- Ureter
- Pelvic ganglion
- Strands of superior hypogastric plexus (embedded in fibrous tissue and smooth muscle of pelvic fascia)
- Sciatic nerve (retracted)
- Inferior gluteal artery
- Internal pudendal artery
- Smooth muscle and fibrous tissue of lateral ligament of bladder
- Ureterovesical junction
- Inferior hypogastric plexus (pelvic plexus)
- Parietal pelvic fascia (overlying rectum)
- Vein draining prostatic plexus
- Vein draining vesical plexus