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External Iliac Artery
and vein
Sciatic nerve
Inferior gluteal A. V. N
Internal Pudendal A. V. N
Secondary safe zone
Obturator N. A. V.
AnteriorPosteriro
24. Sciatic foramen
Structures that exit
• Superior gluteal nerve, artery,
vein
• Piriformis muscle
• Pudendal nerve
• Inferior pudendal artery, vein
• Nerve to the Obturator internus
• Posterior Cutaneous nerve of
thigh
• Sciatic nerve
• Inferior gluteal nerve, artery, vein
• Nerve to Quadratus femoris
Structures that enter in pelvis
• Pudendal nerve
• Inferior pudendal artery
and vein
Remember:
POPS IQ structures exiting pelvis
below the piriformis
Siatic nerve variation:
Peroneal devision might pass
above or through the pirifoemis