QUADRANGULAR SPACE

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SUMMARY


1. Lies b/w the subscapularis & teres major in the posterior wall of the axilla.
 2. Bounded laterally by the humerus. 
3. Bounded medially by the long head of the triceps. 
4. Transmits the axillary nerve & posterior circumflex humeral vessels below. 
Quadrilateral-space-grays-illustration.jpeg
Image: Case courtesy of Dr Craig Hacking, Radiopaedia.org. From the case rID: 67240 [Accessed 19 Apr. 2019].

Reference(s)

R.M.H McMinn (1998). Last’s anatomy: regional and applied. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Gray, H., Carter, H.V. and Davidson, G. (2017). Gray’s anatomy. London: Arcturus.