The adductor canal is a muscular tunnel in the thigh. It commences at the inferior end of the femoral triangl and terminates at the adductor hiatus.
Boundaries
- anteriorly: sartorius muscle
- posteromedially: adductor longus and adductor magnus muscles
- laterally: vastus medialis muscle
Contents
- femoral artery and vein
- saphenous nerve
- nerve to vastus medialis
- diagram showing posterior boundary, formed by adductor longus above and adductor magnus below
- diagram shows that canal is overlapped by sartorius muscle.
