Pudendal plexus (veins)

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Vein: Pudendal plexus (veins)
Latin	plexus pudendalis
Gray's	subject #173 676
Dorlands / Elsevier	p_24/12648652

The pudendal plexus (vesicoprostatic plexus) lies behind the arcuate public ligament and the lower part of the symphysis pubis, and in front of the bladder and prostate. Its chief tributary is the deep dorsal vein of the penis, but it also receives branches from the front of the bladder and prostate. It communicates with the vesical plexus and with the internal pudendal vein and drains into the vesical and hypogastric veins.

[edit] See also

• Prostatic venous plexus

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