Muscle hernias of the leg: Review of literature and report of twelve cases

Twelve patients with muscle hernias of the leg are presented. Three had large, solitary hernias of the tibialis anticus muscle, all due to direct trauma and two of which had symptoms severe enough to justify surgical repair which was successfully accomplished by fascial transplant. Nine patients had multiple small hernias which developed spontaneously with possible congenital weakness as a predisposing factor in some.The literature dealing with muscle hernias is comparatively scant. An incomplete review reveals 163 cases of muscle hernias of the leg reported, including the twelve in the present report.