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Anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome (ACNES) is a nerve entrapment condition that causes chronic pain of the abdominal wall. [1] It occurs when nerve endings of the lower thoracic intercostal nerves (7–12) are 'entrapped' in abdominal muscles, causing a severe localized nerve (neuropathic) pain that is usually experienced at the front of the abdomen.
The primary symptom is pain and it may be localized to the distribution of one or more of the intercostal nerves, manifesting as chest and abdominal pain. [18] No treatment modality prior to neurectomy (e.g. systemic medications, cryoablation, therapeutic nerve blocks, and radioablation) has given effective pain relief and none have been curative.
Diastasis recti, or rectus abdominis diastasis, is an increased gap between the right and left rectus abdominis muscles. [1] The increased distance between the muscles is created by the stretching of the linea alba , a connective collagen sheath created by the aponeurosis insertions of the transverse abdominis , internal oblique , and external ...
Identifying the level of entrapment is an important consideration for surgery as decompressing the wrong area will lead to a failed surgery (e.g. performing back surgery for extra-spinal sciatica), [2] [3] failure to treat nerve entrapment early can lead to permanent nerve injury, [4] and the patient may be unnecessarily exposed to surgical ...
He became a professor of surgery in 1619 and was the first to describe this rare hernia in 1627. [14] The history of the Spigelian hernia was acknowledged in 1645, twenty years after Spiegel's death. In 1764, almost a century later, the Flemish anatomist, Josef Klinkosch , was acknowledged for recognizing and describing a hernia located in the ...
Nerve compression syndrome, or compression neuropathy, or nerve entrapment syndrome, is a medical condition caused by chronic, direct pressure on a peripheral nerve. [1] It is known colloquially as a trapped nerve, though this may also refer to nerve root compression (by a herniated disc, for example).
“They told us as soon as they gave us the diagnosis that pretty much the only course of treatment would be to get a hemispherectomy, which is a surgery to remove the left side of the brain ...
A rectus sheath hematoma is an accumulation of blood in the sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle. It causes abdominal pain with or without a mass. The hematoma may be caused by either rupture of the epigastric artery or by a muscular tear. Causes of this include anticoagulation, coughing, pregnancy, abdominal surgery and trauma. With an ageing ...