Surgical operations / by Sir William MacCormac.

Date:
1885-1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Surgical operations / by Sir William MacCormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Common femoral A, External circumflex A, Obliterated femoral A. Profunda A; Femoral A. Femoral A. Profunda A, I'oint of application of ligature. Hxternal circumflex A. much enlarged. Profunda A. Femoral A. below ligature. Fig. 84,—Drawing from a dried specimen (anterior view). Both femoral arteries have been ligatured for double popliteal aneurism. An abundant collateral circulation has been established. The drawings are made from a dried preparation which had previously been carefully dissected and injected. Both femoral vessels have been tied and an abundant col- lateral circulation is established. Mr. Todd, of the Richmond Hospital, tied the left superficial femoral artery in 1817, the patient being then twenty-nine, and the right, three years later, for popliteal aneurism in both instances. The man died m 1836. On the right side the vessel has been tied five inches below Pouparl's liga- ment, and two and three-quarter inches below the origin of the profunda, which is much increased in size, and gives off a very large branch to the short adductors. The perforating arteries are much enlarged. A large branch of the middle perforating com- municates directly with a muscular branch of the femoral given off in Hunter's canal. In the popliteal spaces the artery is represented by a fibrous cord. On the left