Armas PBA, Martínez FG, Agramonte BO

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ABSTRACT

The classification for the abdominal wall hernias are mentioned and divided into the categories a) inguinal-femoral, b) anterior: epigastric, umbilical and of Spiegel, c) pelvic: obturator, perineal and sciatica, d) posterior or lumbar: of the superior and inferior triangle. The concept of eponym and eponym's coinage is presented to refer to the hernias with a proper name. A topic review is carried out, together with the eponyms related; the search is performed in the databases PubMed, Scielo andMedline, which is supplemented by means of the search engine Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia, in institutions and personal libraries. The results are critically analyzed before writing the manuscript. 31 hernias aren mentioned with their eponyms, there are other three for which the enough evidence is not achieved for such an end. The importance is emphasized of knowing about anatomy and dissection with a view to improving the results in this field.