posterior pararenal space
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anatomical compartments and their connections as demonstrated by ectopic air. Duodenal perforation complicating ERCP in a 60-year-old man. Contrast-enhanced CT scan at the level of right renal hilum (a, b) and iliac crest (c) shows the retroperitoneal and interfascial planes. a Anterior pararenal space (APS) is limited by posterior parietal peritoneum and anterior renal fascia, with midline continuity; posterior pararenal space (PPS) between posterior renal fascia and transversalis layer of endoabdominal fascia; perirenal space (PS) between anterior and posterior renal fascias. Renal and lateroconal fasciae are laminated, defining potential spaces: the retromesenteric (RMP), the retrorenal (RRP) and lateroconal planes (LP) that all communicate at fascial trifurcation. b Axial image focused on fascial trifurcation. Ectopic gas is seen extending through the retromesenteric plane (RMP), retrorenal plane (RRP) and lateroconal plane (LP), and meeting at the fascial trifurcation (red star). Posterior pararenal space (PPS) anteriorly continues as a fat stripe in the properitoneal space (PP). c Inferior extension of the interfascial plane, delineated by ectopic gas/air. The retromesenteric and the retrorenal planes approximate one another as the fat cone of perirenal fat diminishes inferiorly, resulting in the combined interfascial plane (CIP); it continues in the pelvis along the anterolateral margins of the psoas muscle contiguous with the pelvic retroperitoneal perivesical and presacral spaces
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anatomical compartments and their connections as demonstrated by ectopic air. Sigmoid perforation during colonoscopy with polyp excision in a 77-year-old woman. Axial (a) and coronal (b) reformatted CT scan in “lung window” demonstrating the retroperitoneal anatomy delineated by air/gas. a Perirenal space limited by the anterior and posterior renal fascias, with bridging septa (red arrow) and adipose tissue. Posterior pararenal space anteriorly continues along the properitoneal flank stripe to the properitoneal space between the parietal peritoneum and the transversalis fascia. b On the left, the retromesenteric plane (RMP) and the perirenal space (PS) extend cranially to the dome of the diaphragm, where they blend with the left subdiaphramatic extraperitoneal space. Incidental anterior abdominal wall hernia. RRP retrorenal plane, PPR posterior pararenal space, PP properitoneal space, LP lateroconal space, CIP combined interfascial plane
The posterior pararenal space is the smallest and most clinically insignificant portion of the retroperitoneum.
Gross anatomy
It is filled with fat, blood vessels, and lymphatics, but contains no major organs.
Boundaries
- posteriorly: bound by transversalis fascia
- anteriorly: bound by posterior perirenal fascia (Zuckerkandl's fascia)
- medially: bound by fusion of the posterior perirenal and transversalis fasciae with muscular fasciae
- superiorly: compartment limited by the fusion of psoas and quadratus lumborum with the inferior phrenic fascia
- inferiorly: opens into the pelvis
Related pathology
It is rarely subject to involvement in disease processes except for when the spread is from adjacent structures.
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