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About prolongations of the urogenital fascia into the pelvis: An anatomic study and general remarks on the interparietal-peritoneal fasciae

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Following an anatomic study of the spermatic sheath and in the light of anatomic dissections and frozen cadaver transverse sections, the authors define the inferior and lateral extensions of the fascia visceralis described by Couinaud and Mathis, especially into the Bogros (spermatic sheath), Retzius (umbilical-prevesical fascial), and retrorectal (retrorectal fascial) spaces. These points are important in hernia surgery when a large retroparietal prosthesis is used, in urologie surgery, and in carcinologic colorectal surgery. The anatomic relations with the other interparietal-peritoneal fasciae are also reviewed.

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  1. Service de Chirurgie A, CHU, F-80054, Amiens, France

    B. Diarra, R. Stoppa & P. Verhaeghe

  2. Laboratoire d'Anatomie et Organogenèse, Faculté de Médecine de l'Université Jules Verne, 3, rue des Louvels, F-80036, Amiens, France

    B. Diarra & P. Mertl

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Diarra, B., Stoppa, R., Verhaeghe, P. et al. About prolongations of the urogenital fascia into the pelvis: An anatomic study and general remarks on the interparietal-peritoneal fasciae. Hernia 1, 191–196 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01234757

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