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Developmental Origins of Abdominal Wall Hernias: 43

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The rare lumbar hernia (of Petit) occurs in the interval between the edges of the latissimus and external oblique. The bulge stretches lumbodorsal fascia and internal oblique layers.

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1. Skandalakis, JE, Gray, SW: Embryology for Surgeons, 2nd ed, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1994, pp. 540-593. 

2. Hinman, Jr., F: Atlas of Urosurgical anatomy, Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 1993, pp. 98, 99, 128,129.

3. Wind, G: Laparoscopic Anatomy, Abdomen and Pelvis, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1997, pp. 85, 86, 218, 249-255. 

4. Larsen, WJ: Human Embryology, London, Churchill Livingstone, 1993, pp. 67-72.

5. Behrman (ed): Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 16th ed, Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 2000, pp. 528, 1636. 

6. Townsend, CM (ed), Sabiston, D, Textbook of Surgery, Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 2001, pp. 1478-1481.

7. Kapur, P et al: Pediatric hernias and hydroceles, Pediatric Clinics of North America, 45 (4):774-787, 1998. 

8. Martin, RW: Screening for Fetal Abdominal Wall Defects, Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, 25 (3):518-525, 1998.  

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