INTRODUCTION Idiopathic obturator neuralgia is a rare chronic pain condition. It consists of pain radiating from the obturator nerve territory to the inner thigh. However, the symptomatic obturator neuralgia is commonly caused by the obturator canal bowel hernia that causes painful commpressive neuropathy in more than 85% of the cases. CASE REPORT A 61-year-old female who underwent right femo...

PURPOSE To map the vascular anatomy of the obturator foramen using fixed anatomic landmarks. METHOD Twenty obturator regions were dissected in 10 fresh female cadavers after vascular blue dye injection in five cadavers (50%). Furthermore, 104 obturator regions were reconstructed by angiotomodensitometry from 52 women under investigation for suspected arterial disease. The anatomy of the obtur...

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION The variability of the obturator artery inside the pelvis is well known; however in the thigh only two branches encircling the obturator foramen are described. With the evolution of minimally invasive trans-obturator approaches to pelvic surgery the anatomy in this area needs to be better understood. Trans-obturator approach has been shown clinically more effective and less i...

The obturator foramen is a large opening in the hip bone situated below and anterior to the acetabulum. The obturator foramen is enclosed by the obturator membrane, apart from the part above near the obturator groove, where the obturator vessels and nerve pass through. The present study reports multiple openings in the obturator foramen detected incidentally in a left hip bone specimen and disc...

The obturator artery normally originates from the internal iliac artery while the obturator vein drains into the internal iliac vein. During a routine gross anatomy dissection class for undergraduate students at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, in 2016, a rare unilateral variation in the obturator vasculature was found in a female cadaver of approximately 55 years ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to provide a thorough description of the variability in the obturator nerve branching pattern in the inguinal region. METHODS The anatomic variability of obturator nerve branching among 84 dissected embalmed cadavers was investigated. Ultrasound examination of the inguinal region was undertaken in 20 cases and the location of the obturator ne...

A 47-year-old man underwent surgical resection and reconstruction with a fibula osteocutaneous flap. After the surgery, a surgical obturator was placed and adjusted. After flap healing, a conventional obturator was fabricated with polymethyl methacrylate resin and retained by the anatomical undercuts around the reconstructed fibula bone flap and the posterior part of the defect. As the defect s...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Sakthivel, Tutor, Department of Anatomy, B. K. L. Walawaker Rural Medical College, Kasarwade, Sawarde, Chiplun (tk), Ratnagiri (dt) 415606, Maharastra, India. E-Mail: [email protected] Background: Obturator artery is a branch of anterior division of internal iliac artery. It normally runs anteroinferiorly on the lateral wall of pelvis to the upper part ...

Obturator hernia is a rare hernia in the world, diagnosed late since it has no specific symptoms and findings and generally occur in thin and old women with comorbidity.For this reason obturator hernia has high morbidity and mortality rates. In this study, we present an obturator hernia case that Howship-Romberg sign is positive and has typical appearance in computerized tomography. Laparotomy ...

UNLABELLED In 1973, Winnie et al. introduced the inguinal paravascular three-in-one block, which allegedly provides anesthesia of three nerves--the femoral, lateral cutaneous femoral, and obturator nerves--with a single injection. This concept was undisputed until the success of the obturator nerve block was reassessed by using evidence of adductor weakness rather than cutaneous sensory blockad...