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Anatomy of percutaneous femoral artery puncture

Department of Radiology, New England Deaconess Hospital, 185 Pilgrim Road, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Thank you for giving us the opportunity to reply to the letter by Stubbs and Cumberland. We were certainly aware of the mid-inguinal point as a landmark for puncturing the femoral artery. In fact, this was the method which one of us was taught at the start of cardiology training over a decade ago. However, personal experience suggests that there are frequently practical problems when using this method for localizing femoral puncture sites.

Received for publication November 13, 1991. Accepted for publication December 6, 1991.