A Commonly Seen Cause Of Abdominal Pain: Abdominal Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome
İlker Solmaz, Mustafa Talay, Şükrü Tekindur, Ercan Kurt
Department Of Anesthesiology, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey
Keywords: Abdominal cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome, ACNES, abdominal pain
Abstract
Although abdominal cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome (ACNES) is accepted as a rare condition, it is a syndrome that should be more common diagnosis when the clinical signs can not explain the cause of abdominal pain.
Abdominal pain is commonly based on intra-abdominal causes by physicians. Consequently redundant tests and consultations are asked for the patients, and unnecessary surgical procedures may be applied. The patients with these types of pain are counsulted by many clinics, and because their definitive diagnoses can not be done they are assessed as psychiatric patients. Actually a common cause of abdominal wall pain is the nerve entrapment on the lateral edge of rectus abdominis muscle.
In this paper we would like to share information about diagnosis and treatment of a patient who until come to us has applied to different clinics for chronic abdominal pain and many tests and consultations were asked, and eventually abdominal surgery have decided.