Adductor canal

The adductor canal ( adductor canal ) is an anatomical structure in the thigh of man. The about six inches long channel serves for the passage of the femoral artery and the femoral vein of the ventral side of the thigh ( anterior femoral regions ) for the knee ( popliteal fossa ). In the adductor canal the femoral artery lies anterior to the vein. Also, the saphenous nerve and the artery descending genus partially extend the adductor canal, but leave him by pierce the membrane vastoadductoria, ventrally.

Anatomical limitations

The dorsal boundary of the adductor canal forms the groove between the vastus medialis and the adductor. The ventral wall is formed by an aponeurosis, which stretches out between the vastus medialis and adductor magnus: membrane vastoadductoria. Proximally and distally of the channel is open. Its distal opening is formed by the gap between the points of attachment of the musculus adductor magnus and called adductor hiatus or hiatus tendineus.