Reply to: Venous aneurysms of saphena magna: Is this really a rare disease?

Abstract

We would like to thank our colleagues for their letter to the Editor [1] with regard to the article ‘‘A challenging hernia: primary venous aneurysm of the proximal saphenous vein’’ [2]. We are happy to learn that Donati et al. agreed with us that a primary venous aneurysm of the great saphenous vein is a rare disease and therefore seldom considered in the differential diagnoses of a lump in the inguinal region. The authors of this letter asked several questions and made several comments and vague hypotheses which we would like to reply on and clarify.