Corpus: Pubovesical ligament

The pubovesical ligament is a ligament of the female pelvis. In addition to collagen fibres, it contains strands of smooth muscle that separate from the outer longitudinal muscle layer of the bladder wall and are delimited as the pubovesical muscle.

The pubovesical ligament originates at the neck of the bladder (cervix vesicae) in the area of the nodus vesicae and attaches to the dorsal edge of the symphysis pubica. It is only found in women and corresponds to the male puboprostatic ligament. Caudally, the ligament borders the spatium retropubicum.

In the older literature, the pubovesical ligament consists of two parts:

• the ligamentum pubovesicale laterale (corresponds to the ligamentum puboprostaticum) and
• the medial pubovesical ligament

The pubovesical ligament surrounds the neck of the bladder and fixes its position.

• Anderhuber et al, Waldeyer - Human Anatomy: Textbook and atlas in one volume (De Gruyter Studium) (19th totaly rev. ed.), De Gruyter, 2012