Amyand's Hernia: A Serendipitous Diagnosis

An Amyand's hernia refers to the presence of an appendix within an inguinal hernia sac. This uncommon finding occurs in less than 1% of all right side inguinal hernias; to date, this finding has been reported in only 14 patients with left side inguinal hernias. The preoperative diagnosis of thi...

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Autores principales: Mewa Kinoo, S., Aboobakar, M. R., Singh, B.
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/PMC3638531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23691419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/125095
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description An Amyand's hernia refers to the presence of an appendix within an inguinal hernia sac. This uncommon finding occurs in less than 1% of all right side inguinal hernias; to date, this finding has been reported in only 14 patients with left side inguinal hernias. The preoperative diagnosis of this condition is uncommon. We report the 15th case of a left side Amyand's hernia that was diagnosed preoperatively on a contrast enema study as well as the relatively more common right-sided Amyand's hernia diagnosed serendipitously at surgery.
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spelling pubmed-36385312013-05-20 Amyand's Hernia: A Serendipitous Diagnosis Mewa Kinoo, S. Aboobakar, M. R. Singh, B. Case Rep Surg Case Report An Amyand's hernia refers to the presence of an appendix within an inguinal hernia sac. This uncommon finding occurs in less than 1% of all right side inguinal hernias; to date, this finding has been reported in only 14 patients with left side inguinal hernias. The preoperative diagnosis of this condition is uncommon. We report the 15th case of a left side Amyand's hernia that was diagnosed preoperatively on a contrast enema study as well as the relatively more common right-sided Amyand's hernia diagnosed serendipitously at surgery. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3638531/ /pubmed/23691419 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/125095 Text en Copyright © 2013 S. Mewa Kinoo et al. 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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