Hernia Types

• Direct Inguinal: medial to inferior epigastric artery
• Indirect Inguinal: lateral to inferior epigastric artery
• Pantaloon: both direct and indirect
• Femoral
• Cooper’s hernia: femoral hernia with 2 sacs, first in femoral canal, second through defect in superficial fascia
• Epigastric: through linea alba above umbilicus
• Umbilicus
• Littre’s hernia: Meckel’s diverticulum
• Richter’s hernia: strangulated hernia invloving 1 sidewall of bowel
• Hiatal hernia: sliding > nonsliding or paraesophageal, mixed or compound
• Spigelian’s hernia: lateral ventral wall
• Velpeau hernia: hernia in groin in front of femoral blood vessels
• Diastasis Recti: separation of L/R rectus abdominus muscles