Novel femoral artery terminology: From complex to simple or toward more complex?

Vascular anatomical features of the medial thigh flap in human cadavers of Caucasian origin

“…On the other hand, the clinicians refer to the femoral artery as the superficial femoral artery and its branch as the deep femoral artery. Another confusion on the terminology used by the clinicians and the surgeons is described by Muresian [15], where he uses the termination of the common femoral artery instead of the femoral artery and the branches of the artery as the superficial and the deep femoral arteries. All this knowledge regarding the terminology and nomenclature of the femoral artery and its branches are not recorded in Terminologia Anatomica [6].…”

“…As recently described by Benninger [2] there is some terminological inconsistency or disagreement about the branching pattern of the femoral artery [15]. In order to overcome this issue we used the classical anatomical terminology in order to describe the femoral artery and its branches to medial thigh flap pedicle.…”