Pubovesical ligament

Our option This structure originates from the pubic bone laterally, it is connected with the superior fascia of the pelvic diaphragm white line laterally and with the pubovesical ligament medially. 

Fig. 1.9a-c. Anterior compartment, a Macroscopic preparation of a 23-week-old female fetus with the pubovesical ligament (arrow) and the tendinous arch (arrowhead). x9. b In an axial section (5 mm) of an adult female with the paravisceral fat pad (asterisks), x. c Axial section (400 pm) of a 24-week-old female fetus with the developing paravisceral fat pad (asterisks). X8. b, bladder u, urethra pbo, pubic bone oi, obturator internus muscle... 

As has been described above, smooth muscles are found outside the walls of the urogenital organs constituting parts of the pubovesical ligament in front of the ventral wall of the urethra. 

Dorschner et al. [14] pointed out the fact that the smooth muscle bundles of the pubovesical ligaments are continuous with longitudinal muscle fibers of the neck of the bladder that they call dilatator urethrae. Maybe again there is a similarity to the anorectum, where we also found smooth muscle bundles and autonomic nerves outside the ventral wall, which we... 

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