Lumbar hernia: anatomical route assessed by computed tomography

Surg Radiol Anat. 2002 Feb;24(1):53-6. doi: 10.1007/s00276-002-0003-z.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Back / anatomy & histology
  • Humans
  • Intervertebral Disc Displacement / diagnostic imaging*
  • Intervertebral Disc Displacement / surgery
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / anatomy & histology
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / surgery
  • Muscle, Skeletal / anatomy & histology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed