VH Dissector: Lower Limb: Adductor Canal

First, add the bones of the right lower limb.

Next, add the adductor magnus muscle.

Add the adductor longus muscle.

Add the femoral artery.

Add the femoral vein.

Rotate the donor body and highlight the adductor magnus once again to visualize the two tendinous insertions of this muscle on the linea aspera and medial condyle of the femur. The opening between these tendons is called the adductor hiatus

Add the popliteal artery and vein. Notice that the femoral vessels become the popliteal vessels when they pass through the adductor hiatus.

The saphenous nerve, the terminal cutaneous branch of the femoral nerve, also goes through the adductor canal; however, it exits the canal before the adductor hiatus, so it does not travel through this opening. 

This donor body does not have a specific label for the saphenous nerve, but it can be seen as a continuation of the femoral. Add the femoral nerve and observe tis superficial and medial deviation from the femoral vessels before the adductor hiatus.

Add the vastus medialis muscle

Add the sartorius muscle

We have now added all the borders and contents of the adductor canal. Switch to a posterior view to see the popliteal vessels exiting the fully formed adductor canal and the saphenous nerve emerging more medially.

Add the great saphenous vein. If this donor body showed a continuation of the saphenous nerve, it would travel inferiorly and superficially alongside the great saphenous vein.

Change to a color-coded view of the adductor canals at different levels.