Peritoneal Health Guide

Your Vesicouterine Peritoneum And You

In the anatomy of human females, the uterorovesical pouch, also known by medical professionals as a vesicouterine excavation, is a second pouch made from the serous membrane called the vesicouterine peritoneum. This membrane covers the bladder and the uterus, continues over the surface of the intestines and the uterine fundus and onto the vesical surface. The vesical surface continues all the way over to where the cervix uteri and the body join together, and then it makes its way over to the bladder.

This membrane covering both bladder and uterus is also known commonly by medical professionals as Dunn’s Pouch. It is a landmark, anatomically speaking, for endometrial seeding, which causes pain of a cyclical nature in childbearing-aged women Dunn’s Pouch also is a big part of the problem of endometriosis, particularly the chronic variety, and it is a major factor in uterine retroversion, which often causes pregnancy complications.

Some medical and sex experts believe that due to its being located so near to the vesicouterine pouch, the anterior fornix, the erogenous zone also known most commonly to people as the AFE zone or the A-spot, and the vesicouterine pouch are one and the same.

Other medical experts believe the pouch to be a deteriorated female prostate, and this theory has also been considered before, and has been believed about the Skene’s Gland and the G-spot.

In a hysterectomy, which is performed for a number of reasons, the most common being uterine or ovarian cancer, wherein the vesicouterine peritoneum has been invaded by cancerous cells, the surgeon accesses the vesicouterine space in order to perform the procedure in women with histories of cesarean section. This includes women who have had more than one cesarean section, and it also includes women with previous myomectomy problems or a history of a ruptured uterus.