The determinants of minimal levator hiatus and their relationship to the puborectalis muscle and the levator plate

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Anterior and lateral borders of the minimal levator hiatus are formed mostly by pubococcygeus. The puborectalis, pubococcygeus, and iliococcygeus form the bulk of the levator plate.

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