Echography has advantages over other imaging modalities: the ability to examine patients in both upright and supine positions, to use dynamic maneuvers such as Valsalva and compression and to to document motion in real time.
Dynamic maneuvers affect the clinician's ability to diagnose a hernia, alter its size and contents and evaluate its reducibility.
The inguinal and femoral hernias lie so close to the inguinal area that they are considered to be groin hernias well. Ultrasound evaluation of the groin should include an assessment for a Spigelian hernia, direct and indirect inguinal hernias and femoral hernias.
Hernia complications include incarceration, obstruction and strangulation. We will study the different ultrasound aspects of these complications.