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Today we are going to make a fast revision of the practical anatomy of the lower limb.
To understand it we have to make some land marks. At the upper end of the lower limb
there is the inguinal ligament that extends laterally from anterior superior illiac spine
at medially it terminates at
the *** tubercle. Passing deep to the inguinal ligament there are three main structures which
are from medial to lateral the femoral vein which is deep also, superficial and lateral
to it there is the femoral artery and
more superficial and lateral there is the femoral nerve. Lateral to all of them and
coming down from the illiac spine there is the sartorius muscle which has parallel fibres
and medial to them and attached to the *** bone just below the *** tubercle there is
the adductor longus and
the upper end of it is the tendonitis. There are two small muscles seen deep to the three land marks. Deep to
the vein and close to the upper end of the adductor longus there is a small muscle which
is the pectineus muscle. When we go deep
to the nerve and close to the sartorius, we'll find the iliopsoas muscle. All the muscles lateral to the three land
marks are the muscles of the anterior group of the thigh and all the muscles medial to
them are the medial group of the thigh and in the back we have only group which is the
posterior group of the thigh