Adductor Canal Anatomy

Adductor canal block local anaesthetic can be administered in the adductor canal to block the saphenous nerve in isolation or together with the nerve to the vastus medialis to provide anaesthesia for procedures involving the distal thigh knee and lower leg on the medial side. It courses between the anterior compartment of thigh and the medial compartment of thigh.

Adductor Hiatus Wikipedia

The adductor canal also known as the hunter canal is a muscular tunnel in the thigh.

Adductor canal anatomy. It commences at the inferior end of the femoral triangle and terminates at the adductor hiatus. It is approximately 15cm long extending from the apex of the femoral triangle to the adductor hiatus of the adductor magnus. The adductor canal is an intermuscular tunnel situated on the medial side of the middle one third of the thigh.

The adductor canal hunters canal subsartorial canal is a narrow conical tunnel located in the thigh. The adductor canal subsartorial or hunters canal is an aponeurotic tunnel in the middle third of the thigh extending from the apex of the femoral triangle to the opening in the adductor magnus the adductor hiatus. Adductor canal is 15cm long and stretches from the apex of the femoral triangle above to the tendinous opening in the adductor magnus below.

Adductor longus and adductor magnus muscles. The adductor canal subsartorial hunters canal is an aponeurotic tunnel in the middle third of the thigh extending from the apex of the femoral triangle to the opening in the adductor magnus the adductor hiatus. The canal serves as a passageway from structures moving between the anterior thigh and posterior leg.

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