Amyand's Hernia in a 6-Week-Old Infant: A Delayed Diagnosis

In Amyand's hernia, the hernia sac contains the appendix. This can be normal and accidentally found during herniotomy or inflamed and present as acute scrotum, although the latter is less frequent. We present a case of a male infant with scrotal abscess resulting from Amyand's hernia, with...

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Autores principales: Piedade, Cláudia, Reis Alves, Júlio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23476866
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/758171
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description In Amyand's hernia, the hernia sac contains the appendix. This can be normal and accidentally found during herniotomy or inflamed and present as acute scrotum, although the latter is less frequent. We present a case of a male infant with scrotal abscess resulting from Amyand's hernia, with appendicitis and periappendicular abscess.
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spelling pubmed-35809322013-03-09 Amyand's Hernia in a 6-Week-Old Infant: A Delayed Diagnosis Piedade, Cláudia Reis Alves, Júlio Case Rep Pediatr Case Report In Amyand's hernia, the hernia sac contains the appendix. This can be normal and accidentally found during herniotomy or inflamed and present as acute scrotum, although the latter is less frequent. We present a case of a male infant with scrotal abscess resulting from Amyand's hernia, with appendicitis and periappendicular abscess. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3580932/ /pubmed/23476866 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/758171 Text en Copyright © 2013 C. Piedade and J. Reis Alves. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580932/
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