In selected cases, the lymph nodes may be transferred as a group with their supporting artery and vein, but without the associated abdominal tissue for breast reconstruction.

Taking abdominal tissue is called a TRAM flap, which is short for transverse rectus abdominis muscle.

An umbilical hernia is a bulge in the abdominal wall near the navel (umbilicus) that sometimes contains abdominal tissue, a loop of intestine, fat, or fluid.

Umbilical hernia repair is surgery to correct an umbilical hernia, a sac of abdominal tissue that protrudes through the umbilicus (belly button).

Incarcerated abdominal tissue may cause nausea, vomiting, and abdominal distension.

In this way body temperature was kept constant and the evaporation of water from abdominal tissues was minimised.

Dr. Garcia believes ovarian cancers often arise in abdominal tissue, which may be why the disease is usually advanced when diagnosed.

Women who have had their healthy ovaries removed occasionally develop cancer in their abdominal tissue.