Superior Lumbar Hernia: A case report

ABSTRACT

A lumbar hernia is a rare clinical disease entity which arises from the superior or the inferior lumbar triangle. The causes are congenital, traumatic, previous operation, and so on, but spontaneous occurrence is also encountered. We had a occasion to treat a 34-year-old female patient with a left superior lumbar hernia filled with retroperitoneal fats in a sac. The relatively large defect of the transversalis fascia was repaired with a PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) graft and an overlying approximation of external oblique and latissimus dorsi muscle. We report on this case with a brief review of the literature.