ABSTRACT
A comparative analysis of the measurements of the distances between the small saphenous vein and the common peroneal and tibial nerves at the back of the knee was performed in melanodermal and leukodermal male adults. The positions in which the vein lies ore closely to the nerves are stressed and should be considered as critical in possible surgical damage to the nerves during saphenectomy.
Subject(s)
Black People , Peroneal Nerve/anatomy & histology , Saphenous Vein/anatomy & histology , Tibial Nerve/anatomy & histology , White People , Adult , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
Lower limbs of human adults, males and females, were used for micro- and mesoscopic studies of the collagen-elastic arrangement of the tissue surrounding the femoral vessels on their course along the adductor canal. The vessels' sheaths and lamellae which join them to the canal walls, are formed by strong networks of collagen and elastic fibers, and the perivascular area is filled by thin lamellae of connective tissue, delimiting lobules of adipose tissue. The functional importance of this arrangement to the mechanic protection of the vessels during contraction of the muscles related to the vessels in the adductor canal is discussed.
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Connective Tissue/anatomy & histology , Elastic Tissue/anatomy & histology , Femoral Artery/anatomy & histology , Femoral Vein/anatomy & histology , Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/anatomy & histology , Female , Humans , Male , Muscles/blood supply , Thigh/blood supplyABSTRACT
Sao comparadas as medidas das distancias entre a veia safena parva e os nervos fibular comum e tibial, em individuos masculinos e femininos, melanodermos e leucodermos. Sao apontados ainda os locais em que a veia se encontra mais proxima desses nervos tanto no grupo masculino como no feminino e que podem ser considerados como pontos criticos em relacao a lesoes dos nervos