Mucinous ovarian tumour presenting as a ruptured incisional hernia

We describe an ovarian borderline tumour that presented as an acute deterioration in an incisional hernia secondary to intraperitoneal mucin accumulation. The differential diagnosis associated with hernial sac contents and options for opportunistic diagnosis are discussed. This case raises awareness...

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Autores principales: Toomey, D, McNamara, D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Surgeons 2012
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Online Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3954266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23031756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588412X13373405385818
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description We describe an ovarian borderline tumour that presented as an acute deterioration in an incisional hernia secondary to intraperitoneal mucin accumulation. The differential diagnosis associated with hernial sac contents and options for opportunistic diagnosis are discussed. This case raises awareness of potential serious diagnoses that may be overlooked during emergent hernia repair.
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spelling pubmed-39542662014-03-20 Mucinous ovarian tumour presenting as a ruptured incisional hernia Toomey, D McNamara, D Ann R Coll Surg Engl Online Case Report We describe an ovarian borderline tumour that presented as an acute deterioration in an incisional hernia secondary to intraperitoneal mucin accumulation. The differential diagnosis associated with hernial sac contents and options for opportunistic diagnosis are discussed. This case raises awareness of potential serious diagnoses that may be overlooked during emergent hernia repair. Royal College of Surgeons 2012-10 2012-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3954266/ /pubmed/23031756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588412X13373405385818 Text en Copyright © 2013 Royal College of Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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Mucinous ovarian tumour presenting as a ruptured incisional hernia
title Mucinous ovarian tumour presenting as a ruptured incisional hernia
title_full Mucinous ovarian tumour presenting as a ruptured incisional hernia
title_fullStr Mucinous ovarian tumour presenting as a ruptured incisional hernia
title_full_unstemmed Mucinous ovarian tumour presenting as a ruptured incisional hernia
title_short Mucinous ovarian tumour presenting as a ruptured incisional hernia
title_sort mucinous ovarian tumour presenting as a ruptured incisional hernia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3954266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23031756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588412X13373405385818
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