The ilioinguinal nerve branches off the first lumbar nerve, which is near the lower back. It branches down the body through the second and third abdominal muscles and communicates with the ...

AN entrapment neuropathy of the ilioinguinal nerve can cause pain and disability that may ... It could only be found by distal tracing of its anastomotic branch from the iliohypogastric nerve.

The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is a branch of the lumbar plexus, exiting the spinal cord between the L2 and L3 vertebrae. It emerges at the lateral edge of the psoas muscle group, below the ...

Some have defined it as an ‘incipient’ posterior inguinal wall hernia17, 22 attributable to deficiency of the transversalis fascia or dilatation of the internal inguinal ring, while others have ...

A whole series of problems can affect the hips, especially labral tears and cartilage issues. Then a little higher up, the ilioinguinal nerve or one of its branches can be impinged, or there may ...

Surgery Center Physician Dr. Robin Wright Studies Nerve Damage in Inguinal Repair Patients Up to one-third of patients who undergo primary inguinal hernia repair may have preexisting nerve damage, ...

Dissection of the pudendal nerve (PN) and its branches in 71 cadavers revealed anatomic variations not previously described. Knowledge of this variation is necessary to prevent nerve injury ...