Pudendal canal

The pudendal canal (from the Latin canalis "tube", "channel"; pudendal " belonging to shame " ), also called Alcock's canal is a passageway for line structures in the vicinity of the pelvic floor.

The pudendal canal is enclosed by a Faszienduplikatur ( doubling of the fascia ) of the obturator internus muscle, the obturator fascia and thereby limited the side ( lateral) of this. In the middle ( medial), the fatty tissue of the ischio-anal fossa hugs him.

The channel performs a nerve and two vessels:

• Pudendal nerve (nervus dorsalis penis / clitoris dorsal nerve )
• Internal pudendal artery
• Vena pudenda interna

Swell

• Roche Lexicon of Medicine, 5th Edition ( http://www.tk-online.de/rochelexikon/ )
• Ulrike Bommas, Philipp Teubner, Rainer Voß: Anatomy and Embryology - Kurzlehrbuch, Thieme, 2nd edition 2006 ( ISBN 978-3-131-35532-4 )

• Support and movement apparatus