Lumbar hernia: anatomical route assessed by computed tomography.
Lumbar hernia is classically described as arising from the superior (Grynfeltt's) lumbar triangle or the inferior (Jean-Louis Petit's) lumbar triangle. The present anatomical study based on a computed tomography examination performed in a patient with lumbar hernia, has led to the suggestion that lumbar hernias cross the lumbar wall through a musculoaponeurotic tunnel, whose deep and superficial openings are the superior and inferior lumbar triangles, respectively.
Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Faculté de Médecine Henri Warembourg, Rue Michel Polonovski, 59045 Lille, France. guillem.philippe@wanadoo.fr
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D000368:Aged; D001415:Back / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed