THE BLOOD SUPPLY AND NERVE INNERVATION OF THE SATORIUS MUSCLE / 解剖学报

ABSTRACT

The satorius muscle,its blood vessels and nerves have been dissected and examinedin 20 Chinese adult cadavers.It was found,on the average,that the length of thesatorius muscle is 529?8.48mm;the breadth,25.30?0.82mm;and the thickness,10.5?0.66mm.The arteries of the satorius muscle may arise from the surperficial circumflex iliacartery (0.66%?0.46),the femoral artery(58.36%?2.82),the deep femoral artery(3.93?1.11),the lateral circumflex femoral artery and its branches(13.44%?1.95),the supreme genicular artery(20.98%?2.33)and the popliteal artery(2.62%?0.91).There may be 5～13 arterial branches,averaging 7.6,in each satorius muscle,distributing roughly and evenly to the whole muscle,with an interval of about 7cmbetween two adjacent arteries and showing segmental distribution.The upper one third of the satorius muscle is mainly supplied by the branchesof the deep femoral artery and the lateral circumflex femoral artery while theinferior one third,by the branches of the supreme genicular artery.Therefore twoisolated flaps may be planned depending on the arteries mentioned above.The satorius muscle is innervated by the femoral nerve.70% of the cases arewith 1～2 branches of nerves,which,before entering the muscle,may give out 1～7twigs.