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• Highlights a clear disconnect between cadaveric prevalence and real-world surgical risk — a large-caliber retropubic vessel is common on the dissecting table but rarely causes clinically significant hemorrhage. • Reinforces that surgeons performing ilioinguinal or modified Stoppa approaches should dissect carefully near the superior pubic ramus, given the variable location of this vessel (40–96 mm from the symphysis). • Supports continuing with standard anterior approaches rather than modifying technique out of excessive concern for this anastomosis, since actual bleeding complications were infrequent in a large clinical series.
No article notes available at this time.
• Highlights a clear disconnect between cadaveric prevalence and real-world surgical risk — a large-caliber retropubic vessel is common on the dissecting table but rarely causes clinically significant hemorrhage. • Reinforces that surgeons performing ilioinguinal or modified Stoppa approaches should dissect carefully near the superior pubic ramus, given the variable location of this vessel (40–96 mm from the symphysis). • Supports continuing with standard anterior approaches rather than modifying technique out of excessive concern for this anastomosis, since actual bleeding complications were infrequent in a large clinical series.