Renal angle lies between?: (A) 12th rib & lateral border of sacrospinalis, (B) Ilth rib & lateral border of sacrospinalis, (C) 12th rib & lateral border of quadratus lumborum, (D) 1th rib & lateral border of quadratus lumborum
Answer is A. Renal angle lies between the lower border of the 12th rib and the outer border of sacrospinalis (or erector spinae). Clinical impoance : Tenderness in the kidney can be elicited by applying pressure over this angle, with the thumb.