{"id":9860,"date":"2021-06-14T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corpsite.staging.3d4medical.cloud\/uncategorized\/femoral-triangle"},"modified":"2021-06-15T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T09:34:49","slug":"femoral-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/blog\/femoral-triangle","title":{"rendered":"Remember the contents of the Femoral triangle with this crafty mnemonic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The femoral triangle?, also known as Scarpa\u2019s triangle, is an area of much clinical importance when dealing with a femoral hernia. A femoral hernia is when part of the bowels pushes into the femoral canal. This creates a bulge within the femoral triangle. Surgical intervention? is usually needed to treat this condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s take a closer look at the borders and contents of this space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The femoral triangle is located anteriorly on the thigh. Three structures create its triangular shape?.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Inguinal ligament<\/strong>: superior border<\/li><li><strong>Sartorius muscle<\/strong>: lateral border<\/li><li><strong>Adductor longus muscle<\/strong>: medial border and part of the floor<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.completeanatomy.cn\/website\/blog\/snippet-femoral-triangle-3.jpg\">\n<figcaption>Muscular borders of femoral triangle<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The roof consists of the facia lata, and the floor is comprised of pectineus, iliopsoas, and adductor longus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To remember the contents of the triangle, a good mnemonic to use is <strong>NAVEL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>N<\/strong>erve: femoral nerve<\/li><li><strong>A<\/strong>rtery: femoral artery<\/li><li><strong>V<\/strong>ein: femoral vein (great saphenous drains into it within triangle)<\/li><li><strong>E<\/strong>mpty space (important for vessels to distend with different levels of flow)<\/li><li><strong>L<\/strong>ymph canal: contains deep lymph nodes and vessels.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.completeanatomy.cn\/website\/blog\/snippet-femoral-triangle-2.jpg\">\n<figcaption>Contents of the femoral triangle<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The femoral artery, vein, and canal are all contained within a compartment known as the femoral sheath. The sheath is made from fascia and helps protect the important vessels as they supply most of the lower limb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you were to palpate just inferior to where the femoral artery crosses the inguinal ligament, you can measure the femoral pulse?\u200d\u2695\ufe0f?\u200d\u2695\ufe0f.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Better understand clinical conditions such as hernias by exploring the world&#8217;s most advanced 3D anatomy platform, Complete Anatomy. <a href=\"https:\/\/completeanatomy.cn\">Try it for FREE<\/a> today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The femoral triangle?, also known as Scarpa\u2019s triangle, is an area of much clinical importance when dealing with a femoral hernia.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/blog\/femoral-triangle\">\u9605\u8bfb\u8be6\u60c5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9878,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions\/9878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}