LYMPH-NODES OF LOWER LIMB 



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The deep nodes.— The deep nodes are small, and vary from one to three. 

 They lie medial to the femoral vein, the highest one (node of Cloquet or of 

 Rosenmiiller) being placed in the femoral ring and being of especial surgical 



Fig. 591.— The Superficial Inguinal Nodes. (After Toldt, "Atlas of Human Anatomy," 



Rebman, London and New York.) 



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Inguinal 



ligament 



(Poupart'sj 



Inguinal 

 lymph-nodes'^'^ ! 



Femoral 

 artery 

 Femoral vein 



Great saphen 



interest m that, when enlarged, it may simulate a strangulated hernia. The 

 lowest node is below the point where the lesser saphenous joins the femoral vein. 

 These deep nodes receive the deep lymphatics of the leg, the vessels from the 

 glans perns in the male, and the clitoris in the female, and some of the vessels 

 from the superficial subinguinal nodes. Their efferent vessels enter the external 

 iliac nodes. 



In addition to the inguinal group of nodes there are some other nodes in the 

 lower hmb situated along the course of the deep vessels. Thus there is a node in 

 the course of the anterior tibial vessels below the knee, and there is a small 



