Most reported cases of traumatic abdominal wall herniation result from seatbelt or handlebar injuries. The diagnosis is often made on physical examination or abdominal computed tomography (CT). We report a 59-year-old man with traumatic herniation through the rectus muscle following low-velocity blunt abdominal trauma. This patient was init ially thought to have a rectus sheath haematoma and in...

BACKGROUND Many multimodal analgesia techniques have been tried to provide adequate analgesia for midline incisions extending above and below the umbilicus aiming at limiting the perioperative use of morphine thus limiting side effects. Ultrasound (US) guidance made the anesthesiologist reconsider old techniques for wider clinical use. The rectus sheath block (RSB) is a useful technique under-u...

introduction with the growing popularity of totally extraperitoneal (tep) laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, many surgeons will inevitably face the clinical conundrum of how to simultaneously repair an umbilical hernia and an inguinal hernia via tep approach. case presentation in this case report, we describe the successful use of the umbilical hernia defect to insert the balloon dissector an...