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Internal Abdominal Hernias

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As dependent as an understanding of the pathways of spread of infections and malignancies is on fundamentals of embryology and anatomy, so is an understanding of the development and imaging criteria of internal abdominal hernias.

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  1. State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-8460, USA

    Morton A. Meyers MD, FACR, FACG (Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Medicine, Distinguished University Professor)

  2. The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

    Chusilp Charnsangavej MD, FSIR (Professor of Radiology, Robert D. Moreton Distinguished, Chair in Diagnostic Radiology)

  3. Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157-1088, USA

    Michael Oliphant MD, FACR (Professor of Radiology)

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Meyers, M.A., Charnsangavej, C., Oliphant, M. (2010). Internal Abdominal Hernias. In: Meyers' Dynamic Radiology of the Abdomen. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5939-3_17

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