A 15 month old German shepherd dog was presented with a history of chronic vomitions, anorexia, dehydration and loss of condition. Physical examination revealed a hard palpable object in mid abdominal region and lateral abdominal radiograph revealed a radiolucent foreign body with moderate distension of intestinal loops. Emergency exploratory enterotomy was performed and maize corn was retrieve...

BACKGROUND The target of lumbar sympathetic ganglion block is the anterolateral surface of the L2, 3 and 4 vertebral bodies, where the lumbar sympathetic ganglion usually lies. In most cases, a block-needle is inserted approximately 5-8 cm lateral to spinous process on the skin and directed to the anterolateral surface of vertebral body obliquely. The purpose of this study is to determine the s...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the inter-rater reliability of ultrasound imaging for assessing trunk muscle morphologic characteristics at rest and while contracted among different pairs of novice raters. The secondary purpose was to compare 3 different measurement techniques for assessing lateral abdominal muscle thickness. METHODS A single-group repeated measures relia...

BACKGROUND The relationship between activation of the stabilizing muscles of the lumbopelvic region during the Active Straight Leg Raise test and pelvic girdle pain remains unknown. Therefore, the aim was to examine automatic contractions in relation to pre-activation in the muscles of the pelvic floor and the lower lateral abdominal wall during leg lifts, performed as the Active Straight Leg R...

Abstract Aim To present our original method for surgical treatment of patients with lateral incisional hernia (LIH) Material and Method Patients LIH simultaneous presence a middle (MIH) were treated by technique based on the principles anterior component separation sublay technique: a) skin subcutaneous tissue incision along midline MIH dissection; b) dissection in direction to Spiegel line or ...

Vascular ultrasound imaging is inherently hampered by low lateral resolution and contrast. Steering of the beams can be used to overcome these limitations in superficial artery because aperture-to-depth ratio relatively high. However, arteries located at larger depths, steered do not overlap for steering angles. In this study, probe physically translated over abdomen create large angles between...

The third species of the genus Siamothrips Okajima, Siamothrips balteussp. n., is described from China. The new species is characterised by the abdominal tergite II uniformly brown, III-VII with a brown area medially but pale on lateral thirds, tergite VIII smooth medially, tergite X with 3-4 rows of microtrichia medially, and abdominal sternite VII with one pair of discal setae laterally. A ke...

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 Young patients presenting with chronic constipation and failure to thrive, should be promptly investigated looked upon for late presentation of congenital diseases like Hirschsprung disease (HD). This case is reported highlight rare adult HD who presented emergency department complaints lower abdominal pain, flatulence lethargy. Considering the findings CT scan suspicion Adult w...

An 11-week human fetus with megacystis, prostatic dysgenesis, and lateral displacement of the abdominal muscles is described. We suggest that a subtle outflow obstruction of the very early bladder may give rise to both bladder dilation and bladder wall dysgenesis. The bladder dilation may produce abdominal muscle dysplasia or atrophy and almost certainly produces dilation of the prostatic ureth...

A methodology was developed to characterize the material properties of the muscular zones of the human abdominal wall (AW) in relaxed and contracted states. It combined in vivo experiments and numerical simulations. The material properties of the rectus muscle zone (RMZ) were identified by reverse engineering and the material properties of the lateral muscles zone (LMZ) were coupled with them. ...