Superficial perineal pouch

Superficial perineal pouch
Coronal section of anterior part of male pelvis, through the pubic arch. Seen from in front. (Superficial perineal pouch is white outline at bottom.)
Muscles of male perineum.
Details
Artery	branches of internal pudendal artery
Vein	branches of internal pudendal veins
Nerve	branches of perineal nerve
Lymph	superficial inguinal lymph nodes
Identifiers
Latin	compartimentum superficiale perinei
Dorlands /Elsevier	c_49/12252154
TA	A09.5.02.001
FMA	85042
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The superficial perineal pouch (also superficial perineal compartment/space/sac) is a compartment of the perineum.

Structure

The superficial perineal pouch is an open compartment, due to the fact that anteriorly, the space communicates freely with the potential space lying between the superficial fascia of the anterior abdominal wall and the anterior abdominal muscles:

• its inferior border is the Superficial Perineal Fascia (Colles' fascia) is the fascia which covers the inferior border of the muscles of the superficial perineal pouch (not to be confused with deep perineal fascia, which covers the superficial perineal muscles individually).
• its superior border is the perineal membrane (inferior fascia of the urogenital diaphragm).

Contents

• muscles
  • Ischiocavernosus muscle
  • Bulbospongiosus muscle
  • Superficial transverse perineal muscle
• other
  • Crura of penis (males) / Crura of clitoris (females)
  • Bulb of penis (males) / Vestibular bulbs (females)
  • Greater vestibular glands (female)

Additional images

• 

  Median sagittal section of male pelvis, showing arrangement of fasciæ.

See also

• Deep perineal pouch

External links

• Anatomy photo:41:09-0100 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "The Female Perineum: The Superficial Perineal Pouch"
• perineum at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)