Adductor canal
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Adductor/subsartorial/Hunter's canal
Background
- Aponeurotic tunnel in the anterior thigh
- Commences at the apex of the femoral triangle and ends at the adductor hiatus in adductor magnus
Boundaries
- Antero-medial wall: sartorius
- Posterior wall: adductor longus and magnus
- Lateral wall: vastus medialis
- Aponeurosis extends from vastus medialis to the adductors covering the vessels within the canal
Contents
- Superficial femoral artery
- Femoral vein
- Saphenous nerve
- Nerve to the vastus medialis
Exiting the canal
- Femoral artery and vein exit via the adductor hiatus (between the oblique and medial heads of adductor magnus)
- Saphenous nerve exit through anterior foramen piercing inter muscular septum
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cross sectional view of the adductor canal
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3D anterior view of the adductor canal