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Injury, 1973
Summary Three varieties of traumatic abdominal hernia are described and the relevant literature reviewed. In Type I there is a tear in the conjoint tendon. In Type II the muscle tear occurs in the abdominal wall remote from the inguinal region. Type III has been described recently and consists of an avulsion of the origin of the rectus abdominis ...
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Summary Three varieties of traumatic abdominal hernia are described and the relevant literature reviewed. In Type I there is a tear in the conjoint tendon. In Type II the muscle tear occurs in the abdominal wall remote from the inguinal region. Type III has been described recently and consists of an avulsion of the origin of the rectus abdominis ...
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Surgical Clinics of North America, 1984
Internal hernias are the underlying cause of acute or intermittent intestinal obstruction in approximately 4 per cent of cases. Their preoperative diagnosis depends on radiologic evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract with contrast material. This article presents the clinical and radiographic findings associated with various types of intra-abdominal ...
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Internal hernias are the underlying cause of acute or intermittent intestinal obstruction in approximately 4 per cent of cases. Their preoperative diagnosis depends on radiologic evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract with contrast material. This article presents the clinical and radiographic findings associated with various types of intra-abdominal ...
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Traumatic Abdominal Wall Hernia
The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1983Traumatic herniation of the abdominal wall is an unusual injury. Early morbidity is related to associated intra-abdominal organ injuries which are common. Late complications due to intestinal incarceration and strangulation can occur. Immediate celiotomy is necessary for hernia reduction and repair and for evaluation of intra-abdominal organ injury ...
M A, Malangoni, R E, Condon
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Traumatic Hernia of the Abdominal Wall
The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1988Traumatic hernia of the abdominal wall is unusual and even more so the complete avulsion of muscles from the costal arch. While it is usual to search carefully for diaphragmatic hernia during laparotomy for blunt abdominal trauma, traumatic hernia of the abdominal wall of this nature can be easily overlooked. One such case in a child is presented where
Q O, Al-Qasabi, R C, Tandon
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Diagnosing a painful abdominal hernia
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2017An 83-year-old man with a longstanding incisional hernia presented to the ED with a 48-hour history of vomiting and constipation. His medical history included thrombotic stroke, congestive cardiac failure, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and large bowel resection. The patient was tachypnoeic.
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Traumatic hernia of the abdominal wall
The American Journal of Surgery, 1959Abstract A case of traumatic abdominal hernia is presented. The hernia was caused by direct violence to the upper left quadrant of the abdomen. All three of the flat abdominal muscles were torn. Hernias in several of the weak areas of the abdomen, flank and groins are not uncommonly associated with trauma, but very little has been written concerning ...
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Symptomatic Abdominal Wall Hernias
2014Surgical repair of different types of hernia is the most common general surgical procedure. More than 20 million patients worldwide undergo hernia repair each year [1]. As the world population grows, there is continuous increase in absolute number of hernias which should be repaired. Also as the world population grows, it is obvious that there are more
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Abdominal Hernias, Volvulus and Intussusception
2007Abdominal hernias are a common clinical problem. Most of them are diagnosed clinically while some are not. If clinical examination is equivocal and in the types that are not clinically made out, imaging is requested. Volvulus of bowel and intussusception are acute emergency which if not diagnosed may lead to a lot of morbidity.
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