Abstract
This disturbance affects the abdominal cutaneous nerves as they pass through the rectus abdominis muscle sheath, producing pain that may simulate surgical or genitourinary disease. The nerve angulates sharply as it enters the rectus muscle and is tethered posteriorly. At this point, it is vulnerable to entrapment. The disturbance is generally below the level of the umbilicus.
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Turner, O.A., Taslitz, N., Ward, S. (1990). Abdominal Nerve Entrapment. In: Handbook of Peripheral Nerve Entrapments. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4492-9_33
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