Strangulated Richter's incisional hernia presenting as an abdominal mass with necrosis of the overlapping skin. A case report and review of the literature

Although rare, clinicians must be alerted of Richter hernias in patients presenting with innocuous gastrointestinal obstruction symptoms, synchronous with an erythematous hernia. An incarcerated incisional hernia located in a previous laparoscopic insertion site further raises suspicion, while timel...

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Autores principales: Sahsamanis, Georgios, Samaras, Stavros, Gkouzis, Konstantinos, Dimitrakopoulos, Georgios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28265384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.776
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author Sahsamanis, Georgios
Samaras, Stavros
Gkouzis, Konstantinos
Dimitrakopoulos, Georgios
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description Although rare, clinicians must be alerted of Richter hernias in patients presenting with innocuous gastrointestinal obstruction symptoms, synchronous with an erythematous hernia. An incarcerated incisional hernia located in a previous laparoscopic insertion site further raises suspicion, while timely surgical management is essential to avoid bowel perforation or resection.
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spelling pubmed-53313452017-03-06 Strangulated Richter's incisional hernia presenting as an abdominal mass with necrosis of the overlapping skin. A case report and review of the literature Sahsamanis, Georgios Samaras, Stavros Gkouzis, Konstantinos Dimitrakopoulos, Georgios Clin Case Rep Case Reports Although rare, clinicians must be alerted of Richter hernias in patients presenting with innocuous gastrointestinal obstruction symptoms, synchronous with an erythematous hernia. An incarcerated incisional hernia located in a previous laparoscopic insertion site further raises suspicion, while timely surgical management is essential to avoid bowel perforation or resection. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5331345/ /pubmed/28265384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.776 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Sahsamanis, Georgios
Samaras, Stavros
Gkouzis, Konstantinos
Dimitrakopoulos, Georgios
Strangulated Richter's incisional hernia presenting as an abdominal mass with necrosis of the overlapping skin. A case report and review of the literature
title Strangulated Richter's incisional hernia presenting as an abdominal mass with necrosis of the overlapping skin. A case report and review of the literature
title_full Strangulated Richter's incisional hernia presenting as an abdominal mass with necrosis of the overlapping skin. A case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Strangulated Richter's incisional hernia presenting as an abdominal mass with necrosis of the overlapping skin. A case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Strangulated Richter's incisional hernia presenting as an abdominal mass with necrosis of the overlapping skin. A case report and review of the literature
title_short Strangulated Richter's incisional hernia presenting as an abdominal mass with necrosis of the overlapping skin. A case report and review of the literature
title_sort strangulated richter's incisional hernia presenting as an abdominal mass with necrosis of the overlapping skin. a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28265384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.776
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