Femoral vein

Femoral vein
Femoral vein shown in the femoral triangle
Images with and without the sartorius muscle, showing the femoral vein and artery beneath
Details
SourcePopliteal, profunda femoris, great saphenous
Drains toExternal iliac vein
ArteryFemoral artery
Identifiers
Latinvena femoralis
MeSHD005268
TA98A12.3.11.023
TA25055
FMA21185
Anatomical terminology

In the human body, the femoral vein is the vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the femoral sheath. It is a deep vein that begins at the adductor hiatus (an opening in the adductor magnus muscle) as the continuation of the popliteal vein. The great saphenous vein (a superficial vein), and the deep femoral vein drain into the femoral vein in the femoral triangle when it becomes known as the common femoral vein. It ends at the inferior margin of the inguinal ligament where it becomes the external iliac vein.[1] Its major tributaries are the deep femoral vein, and the great saphenous vein. The femoral vein contains valves.

  1. ^ Jonas Keiler; Marko Schulze; Host Claassen; Andreas Wree (2018). "Femoral vein diameter, valve and tributary topography in humans - a post mortem analysis". Clinical Anatomy. 31 (7): 1065–1076. doi:10.1002/ca.23224. PMID 30240062. S2CID 52308003.