doi: 10.1007/s12519-011-0313-5 ©Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011. All rights reserved. Background: A Spigelian hernia (SH) is a ventral interstitial hernia through a defect in the Spigelian fascia; an undescended testis is sometimes associated with this clinical entity in male newborns. The etiopathogenesis, surgical a...

Ventral herniation in horses is most frequently seen in the form of incisional hernias after colic surgery (Gibson et al. 1989; van der Velden and Klein 1994) and in pregnant mares (Kawcak and Stashak 1995), but may also occur after trauma (Hilbert et al. 1978; Hanson and Todhunter 1986). In the latter category, there may be a perforation of the skin, but after blunt trauma this is most often n...