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Femoral Vein

"Femoral Vein" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The vein accompanying the femoral artery in the same sheath; it is a continuation of the popliteal vein and becomes the external iliac vein.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Femoral Vein" by people in this website by year, and whether "Femoral Vein" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 22 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1999 and 2005 and 2014
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