The fascia-iliaca and some fibres of the psoas muscle separate it from the anterior crural nerve, which lies outside of the vessel, and at a somewhat deeper level, hidden amid the fibres of psoas and iliacus.
On its outer side are situated the anterior crural nerve, and the femoral parts of the psoas and iliacus muscles.
Tendon of the psoas parvus muscle, resting on the psoas magnus.
The psoasmuscle supporting the spermatic vessels and the genito-crural nerve.
This membrane is then to be gently raised by the fingers, from off the iliacus and psoas muscles as far inwards as the margin of the true pelvis where the artery lies.
The anterior crural nerve, P, which in the iliac region lies concealed by the psoas muscle, and separated by this from the vessels, now comes into view, lying on the outer side of the artery.
The iliac artery itself is liable to be displaced by adhering to the serous membrane, when this is being detached from the inner side of the psoas muscle.
When the disease is on the anterior surface of the bodies of the lower thoracic vertebræ, the pus may spread down through the pillars of the diaphragm and reach the sheath of the psoas muscle.
The body is bent forward to relax the ilio-psoas muscle and the [inverted Y]-ligament, the foot is advanced and the heel drawn up.
Abscesses which form within the pelvis originate either in connection with the acetabulum or in relation to the psoas muscle where it passes in front of the joint.
The anterior abscess emerges on one or other side of the psoas muscle; from the resistance offered by the fascia lata, the pus may gravitate down the thigh before perforating the fascia.
The ilio-psoas and [inverted Y]-ligament are tense.
The floor of the space is formed from without inward by the ilio-psoas pectineus and the adductor longus muscles.
There is no nerve in relation to the artery in the upper third, the anterior crural nerve lies about half an inch to the outer side of the femoral artery, being separated from the artery by the ilio-psoas muscle.
It usually occurs in connection with tuberculous conditions, such as bone or joint disease, psoas abscess, or empyema, which have opened externally, and have thereby become infected with pyogenic organisms.
The limb is flexed, abducted and rotated out; there is a swelling in the upper part of Scarpa's triangle, but the movements are not restricted in directions which do not entail putting the ilio-psoas muscle on the stretch.
The best illustration of this is seen in the psoas abscess, which may originate in the dorsal vertebræ, extend downwards within the sheath of the psoas muscle, and finally appear in the thigh.
The bursa between the psoas muscle and the capsule of the hip-joint may be the seat of tuberculous disease, and give rise to clinical features not unlike those of disease of the hip-joint.
The contracture of the psoas muscle furnishes a diagnostic sign which distinguishes this form from the superficial abscesses of the iliac fossæ.
In psoas abscesses the exudation extends beneath the sheath of the muscle or between the iliacus and the bone.
In one pound weight of the psoas muscles Fleming counted no less than 300 Cysticerci.
If the subjacent iliac and psoas muscles be implicated, the thigh is flexed upon the leg in decubitus.
It may originate in the sheath either of the psoas or of the iliacus muscle; more frequently it seems to form behind these, and is connected with diseased bone.
This may arise from relief being afforded when thepsoas is relaxed, and the pressure thus removed from the fore part of the joint.
Blood-staining ofpsoas sheath; no injury to vertebral column or to bowel detected.
Hyperæsthesia developed in more than one case in which injury to the psoas had led to hæmorrhage into the muscle sheath.
Footnote 43: Because of the intimacy of the psoas major (p.
After about a year there was established spontaneously an opening through the integument overlying the region of the attachment of the psoas major (magnus), through which pus discharged.
It runs ventrally and backward, at first between the psoas major and minor, then crosses the deep face of the tendon of the latter and descends under cover of the sartorious over the terminal part of the iliopsoas.
The anterior part of the plexus lies in front of the internal iliac artery, between the lumbar transverse processes and the psoas minor.
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