1.
NEUROVASCULATURE OF PELVIS
BY
SALEH NUHU
snuhu@yumsuk.edu.ng/nuhusaleh88@gmail.com
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN ANATOMY
FACULTY OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES
YUSUF MAITAMA SULE UNIVERSITY, KANO
DECEMBER, 2022

2.
ARTERIES OF PELVIS
• Paired internal iliac
• Paired Ovarian/testicular
arteries
• Unpaired median sacral
• Paired superior rectal
arteries.
• SEE PAGE 1341 & 1342 in
the 8th Edition of
Clinically Oriented
Anatomy By Moore,
Arthur & Dalley.

3.
INTERNAL ILIAC
ARTERY

4.
OVARIAN/TESTICULAR
ARTERY

5.
MEDIAN SACRAL
ARTERY

6.
SUPERIOR RECTAL
ARTERY

7.
VEINS OF THE PELVIS AND PERINEUM
• Follows the corresponding arteries.
• They empties into the inferior vena cava.

8.
LYMPH NODES OF THE
PELVIS

9.
NERVES OF THE PELVIS
• Somatic: Sacral and coccygeal plexuses
• Autonomic: Pelvic part of the autonomic nervous system

10.
SACRAL PLEXUS
• Lumbosacral trunk

11.
COCCYGEAL PLEXUS
• Small network of
nerve fibres formed
by the anterior rami
of S4 and S5 and
the coccygeal
nerves.

12.
PELVIC AUTONOMIC NERVES
• Sacral sympathetic
trunks.
• Peri-arterial
plexuses.
• Hypogastric
plexuses.
• Pelvic splanchnic
nerves.

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