What is flank bulging?

What is flank bulging?

Flank bulge is a known complication of various retroperitoneal surgical procedures, which involves flank incisions. The occurrence of postoperative abdominal flank bulge is most likely attributable to muscle denervation caused by injury to the T11 and T12 intercostal nerves.

Can a flank bulge be repaired?

Conclusions: Most flank defects represent true hernias rather than denervation injuries. Direct supported repair of flank hernias using mesh is a safe and effective technique.

What does a flank hernia feel like?

Symptoms of Flank Hernia Symptoms commonly experienced by patients with a flank hernia include: A bulge on the back or side of the abdomen. Back pain around the area of the bulge. Pain that worsens when coughing and/or straining.

What is left flank?

Your flanks are the areas around the sides of your body from your upper abdomen to your back. If you’re having discomfort in this region, either as right or left flank pain, the cause may be one of the following conditions.

What causes flank bulging?

It is possible that postoperative abdominal flank bulging is caused by direct muscular injury and disruption of the local blood supply to the muscle around the incision. However, there is abundant evidence that implicates denervation injury as the more likely etiology.

Where is your flank?

The flank is the area on the sides and back of your abdomen, between your lower ribs and your hips. Pain in this area is called flank pain. Several injuries, diseases and infections can cause pain in the flanks. Flank pain can range from mild to severe.

Is a flank bulge a hernia?

A hernia was diagnosed when a flank bulge was associated with a palpable defect in the abdominal wall.

Can you get a hernia on your left side?

In Amyand’s hernias, appendices are frequently found in the hernia sac; but an incarceration particularly on the left side is a very unusual sight.