Medically reviewed by Jordana Haber Hazan, MD The abdominal aorta is a large artery in your belly that carries blood from the ...

"The abdominal core is the outside muscular container of your abdominal wall," Dr. Horne says. "This starts at the diaphragm and goes all the way down to the pelvic support muscles. Most of the ...

A pulled or strained abdominal muscle — which some people call the ... in the bulge of soft tissue pushing through the abdominal wall An incarcerated hernia can become strangulated, which ...

Background: Posterior abdominal ... a posterior wall defect at the medial end of the inguinal canal. It is often known as sportsman’s hernia and is believed to be caused by repetitive stress.

Radiographic evaluation was normal, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on the same day showed increased focal intensity in the proximal portion of the lateral abdominal wall middle layer (fig 1).