Camper's and Scarpa's Fascia

Expansion

• Camper’s - the Cushion: fatty, superficial, continuous with the general superficial fat of the body
• Scarpa’s - the Sheet: membranous, deep, with defined attachments

Scarpa’s fascia has a precise set of continuations that explain a classic clinical pattern:

• Into the scrotum as the dartos fascia
• Into the penis as the fascia of the penis
• Into the perineum as Colles’ fascia
• Onto the thigh it fuses with the fascia lata just below the inguinal ligament

Because of that last fusion, a ruptured urethra causes urine to spread into the scrotum, penis, perineum and up the anterior abdominal wall, but not down the thigh.