Abdomino-phrenic dyssynergia may be to blame for frequent bloating in many people. There are ways to manage it and multiple ...

Stomach cancer—or gastric cancer—occurs when cells in the lining of the stomach wall mutate and grow uncontrollably. The stomach wall has five layers, and different types of stomach cancer are ...

The radiographs revealed barium filled intestinal loops outside the abdominal wall. The clinician, therefore, diagnosed an abdominal herniation. Figure 3: A barium-swallow contrast radiograph of ...

During a routine examination of our department's animal husbandry unit, we found a female Swiss albino mouse with an extremely distended abdomen (Fig. 1). This 6-month-old mouse, which was ...

Dr. Charlotte Horne, a metabolic and abdominal wall reconstructive surgeon at Mayo Clinic, explains what abdominal core health is, how to protect it and risk factors for problems that may require ...

Abdominal wall hernia disease is often a complex problem and the treatment options are numerous, especially with the ongoing development of new prosthetic materials or tacking devices. As such ...

Background: Posterior abdominal wall deficiency (PAWD) is a tear in the external oblique aponeurosis or the conjoint tendon causing a posterior wall defect at the medial end of the inguinal canal. It ...

None of the treatments for abdominal wall closure (except skin closure in the midline group) is performed on a consensus level. The primary objective of this cross sectional study was therefore to ...

With the fetus growth, the two muscle bellies of the RA, connected by the LA, elongate the abdominal wall and it expands. The DRA affects between 30%–70% of pregnant women and remains in the immediate ...