Acute Abdomen Secondary to Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia after Treatment of Massive Cirrhotic Ascites

Umbilical herniation is common in patients with liver cirrhosis and ascites. Rarely, they suffer from incarceration and strangulation of the umbilical hernia after treatment of ascites. We report 3 cases of umbilical hernia incarceration following removal of massive ascites with different treatment...

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Autores principales: Tan, Hiang Keat, Chang, Pik Eu
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/PMC4208442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25374722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/948172
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description Umbilical herniation is common in patients with liver cirrhosis and ascites. Rarely, they suffer from incarceration and strangulation of the umbilical hernia after treatment of ascites. We report 3 cases of umbilical hernia incarceration following removal of massive ascites with different treatment modalities. Physicians managing this group of patients should be aware of this rare and potentially fatal complication.
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spelling pubmed-42084422014-11-05 Acute Abdomen Secondary to Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia after Treatment of Massive Cirrhotic Ascites Tan, Hiang Keat Chang, Pik Eu Case Reports Hepatol Case Report Umbilical herniation is common in patients with liver cirrhosis and ascites. Rarely, they suffer from incarceration and strangulation of the umbilical hernia after treatment of ascites. We report 3 cases of umbilical hernia incarceration following removal of massive ascites with different treatment modalities. Physicians managing this group of patients should be aware of this rare and potentially fatal complication. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4208442/ /pubmed/25374722 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/948172 Text en Copyright © 2013 H. K. Tan and P. E. Chang. 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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Acute Abdomen Secondary to Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia after Treatment of Massive Cirrhotic Ascites
title Acute Abdomen Secondary to Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia after Treatment of Massive Cirrhotic Ascites
title_full Acute Abdomen Secondary to Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia after Treatment of Massive Cirrhotic Ascites
title_fullStr Acute Abdomen Secondary to Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia after Treatment of Massive Cirrhotic Ascites
title_full_unstemmed Acute Abdomen Secondary to Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia after Treatment of Massive Cirrhotic Ascites
title_short Acute Abdomen Secondary to Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia after Treatment of Massive Cirrhotic Ascites
title_sort acute abdomen secondary to incarcerated umbilical hernia after treatment of massive cirrhotic ascites
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25374722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/948172
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