Lymphatics of the urinary organs (Latin)

Retroperitoneal compartment exposed, showing the systema urinarium (renes, ureteres and vesica urinaria, and the major abdominal and pelvic vessels. The main groups of nodi lymphoidei pelvis of the pelvis and posterior abdominal wall can be seen. Lymph from the nodi paravesicales, iliaci communes, iliaci interni and iliaci externi ultimately converge to the nll. lymphoidei lumbalis. Those in turn drain to the trunci lymphaticus lumbales dexter et sinister, which along with the truncus lymphaticus intestinalis converge to form the cisterna chyli.