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The connection of the deep fascia to that muscle must then be very carefully scraped through, and by tracing the muscle to its insertion to the first rib, the artery is at once reached, lying behind the insertion.— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
The transverse perineal artery, which is always cut in the operation, is small, and rarely bleeds much.— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
The artery, K, lies close to the outer side of the vein; and external to the artery is seen, L, the anterior crural nerve, sending off its superficial and deep branches When a femoral hernia protrudes at the saphenous space L h, Pl. 28, the dense falciform process, h, embraces its outer side, while the pubic portion of the fascia, L, lies beneath it.— Surgical Anatomy
In this course, the artery is accompanied by the vein, H K O, which, according to the region in which it lies, assumes different names, corresponding to those applied to the artery.— Surgical Anatomy
The steps of the operation performed at the situation W, where the artery is about to pass beneath the sartorius, are these: an incision of sufficient length--from two to three inches--is to be made over the course of the vessel, so as to divide the skin and adipose membrane, and expose the fascia lata, through which the inner edge of the sartorius muscle becomes now readily discernible.— Surgical Anatomy

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