The ischioanal fossa (formerly called ischiorectal fossa) is the fat-filled wedge-shaped space located lateral to the anal canal and inferior to the pelvic diaphragm. It is somewhat prismatic in shape, with its base directed to the surface of the perineum and its apex at the line of meeting of the obturator and anal fasciae.

It has the following boundaries:^[1]

The contents include:

• Inside Alcock's canal, on the lateral wall
  • internal pudendal artery
  • internal pudendal vein
  • pudendal nerve
• Outside Alcock's canal, crossing the space transversely
  • inferior rectal artery
  • inferior rectal veins
  • inferior anal nerves
  • fatty tissue across which numerous fibrous bands extend from side to side allows distension of the anal canal during defecation

• Anal triangle

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 425 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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  Coronal section of anterior part of pelvis, through the pubic arch. Seen from in front.
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  The superficial branches of the internal pudendal artery.

• Anatomy image: apmalefrontal4-8 at the College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University
• Anatomy photo:41:04-0103 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "The Female Perineum: The Ischioanal Fossa"
• Anatomy image:9246 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center
• Cross section image: pelvis/pelvis-e12-15—Plastination Laboratory at the Medical University of Vienna
• perineum at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (analtriangle2, femaleugtrianglesectionfascia)
• Diagram at Emory University