Skip to main content
Canadian Family Physician logoLink to Canadian Family Physician
. 2001 Apr;47:788–789.

Case report: cutaneous nerve entrapment. Abdominal wall pain in an elderly patient.

R Peleg 1, P Shvartzman 1
PMCID: PMC2018417  PMID: 11340760

Full Text

The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (28.6 KB).

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. Applegate W. V. Abdominal cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome. Surgery. 1972 Jan;71(1):118–124. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. Doouss T. W., Boas R. A. The abdominal cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome. N Z Med J. 1975 May 28;81(540):473–475. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. Gray D. W., Dixon J. M., Seabrook G., Collin J. Is abdominal wall tenderness a useful sign in the diagnosis of non-specific abdominal pain? Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1988 Jul;70(4):233–234. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. Greenbaum D. S., Greenbaum R. B., Joseph J. G., Natale J. E. Chronic abdominal wall pain. Diagnostic validity and costs. Dig Dis Sci. 1994 Sep;39(9):1935–1941. doi: 10.1007/BF02088128. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. Hall P. N., Lee A. P. Rectus nerve entrapment causing abdominal pain. Br J Surg. 1988 Sep;75(9):917–917. doi: 10.1002/bjs.1800750930. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. Hershfield N. B. The abdominal wall. A frequently overlooked source of abdominal pain. J Clin Gastroenterol. 1992 Apr;14(3):199–202. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  7. Peleg R., Gohar J., Koretz M., Peleg A. Abdominal wall pain in pregnant women caused by thoracic lateral cutaneous nerve entrapment. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 1997 Aug;74(2):169–171. doi: 10.1016/s0301-2115(97)00114-0. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  8. Sippo W. C., Burghardt A., Gomez A. C. Nerve entrapment after Pfannenstiel incision. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1987 Aug;157(2):420–421. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9378(87)80184-9. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  9. Sippo W. C., Gomez A. C. Nerve-entrapment syndromes from lower abdominal surgery. J Fam Pract. 1987 Dec;25(6):585–587. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  10. Spence E. K., Rosato E. F. The slipping rib syndrome. Arch Surg. 1983 Nov;118(11):1330–1332. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.1983.01390110076016. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  11. Thomson H., Francis D. M. Abdominal-wall tenderness: A useful sign in the acute abdomen. Lancet. 1977 Nov 19;2(8047):1053–1054. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(77)91885-2. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from Canadian Family Physician are provided here courtesy of College of Family Physicians of Canada

RESOURCES