“A hernia happens at weak spots in the belly wall. It’s not really in the muscle, but the tough stuff called fascia that ...

You get a hernia when an organ or fatty tissue squeezes through a weak spot in a surrounding muscle or connective tissue called fascia. Hernias often happen where the belly wall is weaker ...

The preoperative length or width of the fascial defect was not to exceed 6 cm, and patients could be enrolled only once. Exclusion criteria were the presence of more than one hernia, signs of ...

The repair of any hernia is a simple procedure if adequate fascial structures are available for sound anatomic correction. Unfortunately, these tissues are not always sufficient, and surgeons have ...

a defect may be present in the fascia, allowing part of the underlying muscle to push through, causing a hernia. The defect could be congenital or due to injury; a defect may reflect an underlying ...

The clinical diagnosis was possible bowel perforation, necrosis from strangulated hernia, or subcutaneous/fascial infection, with septic shock and dehydration. Abdominal radiographs (obtained in ...

A spigelian hernia is a hernia through the spigelian fascia or layer of tissue that separates two groups of abdominal muscles, called the rectus muscles and lateral obliques. Symptoms can be ...

or a muscle hernia through the muscle fascia. Your story fits with an inguinal hernia. This is a relatively common problem that occurs more often in men than women. There is a weak spot in the ...

Some people have a small opening in the fascial layer of their abdomen, and pregnancy can cause that to develop into a hernia, explains Shannon Smith, M.D., a board-certified OB/GYN and partner at ...