I'm seeking information about mid-abdominal hernias. Can anyone provide me with information?

Question

I'm seeking information about mid-abdominal hernias. Can anyone provide me with information?

Answer 1

Umbilical hernias are quite rare, and even more rare are hernias that develop where nothing has ever passed through the abdominal wall.  Rather than relate my own experience with both, which would be merely anecdotal, I searched "mid-abdominal hernia" and "ventral hernia", coming up with these results:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernia#Umbi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernia#Umbi...

The Wikipedia article is pretty good, but I couldn't recognize most of the medical terminology used.  I found that the term ventral is used as a synonym for incisional, which is entirely different than mid-frontal, mid-abdominal.