Archive for the ‘hernia’ Category
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