title: Abdominal wall pain in pregnant women caused by thoracic lateral cutaneous nerve entrapment.
abstract: Three pregnant women presented with disabling lower abdominal wall pain unresponsive to conventional therapies. The striking similarities among the clinical signs and symptoms prompted a review of the literature and led to the suspicion of thoracic lateral cutaneous nerve entrapment, a syndrome reported in other conditions, including after surgery, but not during pregnancy. Treatment by nerve block with local anesthetics was rapidly and completely successful in relieving the symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Peleg
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gohar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koretz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Peleg
mesh_terms: D000009:Abdominal Muscles / Q000294:innervation*; D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D013900:Thoracic Nerves