Lumbar hernia associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Lumbar hernias are very rare posterolateral abdominal wall hernias, and they are spontaneous in most adult patients. Here we report two cases of spontaneous lumbar hernias associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Some factors such as chronic cough, poor nutritional status and ol...

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Autores principales: Xu, Tao, Zhang, Shuwei, Wang, Huaying, Yu, Wanjun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Professional Medical Publicaitons 2013
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24353649
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description Lumbar hernias are very rare posterolateral abdominal wall hernias, and they are spontaneous in most adult patients. Here we report two cases of spontaneous lumbar hernias associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Some factors such as chronic cough, poor nutritional status and old age in patients with COPD would contribute to lumbar hernia.
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spelling pubmed-38093162013-12-18 Lumbar hernia associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) Xu, Tao Zhang, Shuwei Wang, Huaying Yu, Wanjun Pak J Med Sci Short Communication Lumbar hernias are very rare posterolateral abdominal wall hernias, and they are spontaneous in most adult patients. Here we report two cases of spontaneous lumbar hernias associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Some factors such as chronic cough, poor nutritional status and old age in patients with COPD would contribute to lumbar hernia. Professional Medical Publicaitons 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3809316/ /pubmed/24353649 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lumbar hernia associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
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title_short Lumbar hernia associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
title_sort lumbar hernia associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24353649
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