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Chapter 1 - Surgical Anatomy of the Female Pelvis

from Section 1 - Basic Sciences in Obstetrics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2021

By
Jean Calleja-Agius
Edited by
Tahir Mahmood ,
Charles Savona Ventura ,
Ioannis Messinis  and
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Tahir Mahmood
Affiliation:
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
Charles Savona Ventura
Affiliation:
University of Malta, Malta
Ioannis Messinis
Affiliation:
University of Thessaly, Greece
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation:
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, UK
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Summary

The female genitourinary system is mainly derived from the intermediate cell mass, which in turn is derived from the mesoderm following gastrulation. The pelvic girdle, however, is derived from the caudal mesoderm, which, as the name implies, is the mesoderm found caudal to the cloacal membrane. Upon folding, the caudal mesoderm folds ventrally at the point of the cloacal membrane, distal to the paraxial mesoderm and notochord, in such a way that the pelvic girdle wraps around the distal end of the trunk to fuse with the sacral somites and encase the developing female genitourinary system, and leads to the formation of the rump. Blastogenic defects involving the cloaca and caudal folding may also be associated with urogenital and possibly ano-rectal malformations, which can lead to reproductive problems [1].

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The EBCOG Postgraduate Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Obstetrics & Maternal-Fetal Medicine
 , pp. 1 - 7
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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