[Diagnosis and treatment of spontaneous hematomas of the anterior abdominal wall].

According to the authors' data the clinic of this affection is characterized by an acute pain and the appearance of tumescence in the region of musculus rectus abdominis. The diagnosis was proved to be difficult, and all patients were directed to the clinic with improper diagnosis. The treatment is only surgical, i. e. the removal of hematoma and ligation of both ends of the ruptured inferior epigastric artery. In the national literature the authors found the description of 62 examples of this disease and report 7 personal observations.