Renal fascia
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The perirenal fascia is a dense, elastic connective tissue sheath that envelops each kidney and adrenal gland together with a layer of surrounding perirenal fat.
It is a multi-laminated structure which is fused posteromedially with the muscular fasciae of the psoas and quadratus lumborum muscles. It extends anterolaterally behind the kidney as a bileaved layer, which then divides into two perirenal fasciae that pass in front of and behind the kidney:
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Gerota
's fasciafascia: a thin lamina that passes around the front of the kidney and variably interleaves with the opposite anterior fascia -
Zuckerkandl
's fasciafascia: a thicker posterior fascia which continues anterolaterally as the lateroconal fascia and fuses with the parietal peritoneum
-<strong>Gerota's fascia:</strong> a thin lamina that passes around the front of the kidney and variably interleaves with the opposite anterior fascia</li>- +<strong>Gerota fascia:</strong> a thin lamina that passes around the front of the kidney and variably interleaves with the opposite anterior fascia</li>
-<strong>Zuckerkandl's fascia: </strong>a thicker posterior fascia which continues anterolaterally as the lateroconal fascia and fuses with the parietal peritoneum</li>- +<strong>Zuckerkandl fascia: </strong>a thicker posterior fascia which continues anterolaterally as the lateroconal fascia and fuses with the parietal peritoneum</li>
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