femoral ring

The femoral ring is the base of the femoral canal.

Its base is concave, thin, and sharp, and forms the medial boundary of the femoral ring.

The femoral ring is bounded as follows:

It is through this femoral ring, that the intestines can protrude to form femoral hernia.

Part of the intestine can sometimes pass through the femoral ring into the femoral canal to form a femoral hernia.

The entrance to the femoral canal is the femoral ring, through which bowel can sometimes enter, causing a femoral hernia.

Its base, directed upward and named the femoral ring, is oval in form, its long diameter being directed transversely and measuring about 1.25 cm.

Such a constant pressure causes preperitonial fat to insinuate in the femoral ring consequence of which is development of femoral peritoneal sac.

Welwin Garden City, UK) or Femoral Ring Allografts are used only for anterior interbody fusion by open approach.

Repair is either performed by suturing the inguinal ligament to the pectineal ligament using strong non-absorbable sutures or by placing a mesh plug in the femoral ring.

Femoral hernias are more common in multiparous females which results from elevated intra-abdominal pressure that dilates the femoral vein and which in turn stretches femoral ring.

The surgeon then performs a total discectomy and places a bone graft into the intervertebral space; the graft is usually either a tricortical iliac crest or a femoral ring allograft.

The artery in this course usually lies in contact with the external iliac vein, and on the lateral side of the femoral ring (Figure A on diagram); in such cases it would not be endangered in the operation for strangulated femoral hernia.

The femoral ring is closed by a somewhat condensed portion of the extraperitoneal fatty tissue, named the septum femorale (crural septum), the abdominal surface of which supports a small lymph gland and is covered by the parietal layer of the peritoneum.

The femoral ring is bounded in front by the inguinal ligament, behind by the Pectineus covered by the pectineal fascia, medially by the crescentic base of the lacunar ligament, and laterally by the fibrous septum on the medial side of the femoral vein.