Contents
The contents include:
- Inside Alcock's canal, on the lateral wall
- internal pudendal artery
- internal pudendal vein
- pudendal nerve
- Outside Alcock's canal, crossing the space transversely
- inferior rectal artery
- inferior rectal veins
- inferior anal nerves
- fatty tissue across which numerous fibrous bands extend from side to side
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