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KATHERINE H. BORKOVICH, MD; EDWARD S. STAFFORD, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(1):103-107.

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DEEP EPIGASTRIC artery hemorrhage, with and without rupture of the rectus abdominis muscle, was known to the Greeks in the 5th Century BC and Hippocrates¹ made some of the first accurate descriptions of the disorder. Galen² also wrote on the subject, as did Leonardo da Vinci, who reviewed the condition up to the year 1519. The first case in American literature was probably reported by Richardson³ in 1857. One of the more important papers on lesions of the rectus abdominis muscle was that by Cullen and Brodel⁴ whose classic paper on the subject, written in 1937, included excellent anatomic descriptions of this muscle. They also attempted to correlate anatomic factors with possible pathophysiologic mechanisms responsible for rectus muscle rupture, with or without epigastric artery hemorrhage. In 1938, Payne⁵ analyzed 165 cases reported in the literature, and in 1956, Furste⁶ added 85 additional cases. By . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

From the departments of medicine and surgery, The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.

Footnotes
Received for publication April 22, 1965; accepted Aug 23.

Reprint requests to 550 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (Dr. Borkovich).

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