Rupture of Umbilical Hernia with Evisceration in a Newborn - A Case Report

Most umbilical hernias in infants do not need surgery and the ring will eventually close. Occasionally few complications can arise and incarceration is most common. Spontaneous rupture of the hernia and eventual evisceration is a rarely seen complication. A 3-week-old neonate having umbilical hernia...

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Autores principales: Kittur, Dinesh H, Bhandarkar, Kailas P, Patil, Santosh V, Jadhav, Sudhakar S
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Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5593486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28920027
http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/jns.v6i3.565
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author Kittur, Dinesh H
Bhandarkar, Kailas P
Patil, Santosh V
Jadhav, Sudhakar S
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description Most umbilical hernias in infants do not need surgery and the ring will eventually close. Occasionally few complications can arise and incarceration is most common. Spontaneous rupture of the hernia and eventual evisceration is a rarely seen complication. A 3-week-old neonate having umbilical hernia presented with rupture of the sac with evisceration of bowel within a few days of first visit. No underlying cause like umbilical sepsis was found. The baby had emergency repair of the hernia with an uneventful recovery.
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spelling pubmed-55934862017-09-15 Rupture of Umbilical Hernia with Evisceration in a Newborn - A Case Report Kittur, Dinesh H Bhandarkar, Kailas P Patil, Santosh V Jadhav, Sudhakar S J Neonatal Surg Case Report Most umbilical hernias in infants do not need surgery and the ring will eventually close. Occasionally few complications can arise and incarceration is most common. Spontaneous rupture of the hernia and eventual evisceration is a rarely seen complication. A 3-week-old neonate having umbilical hernia presented with rupture of the sac with evisceration of bowel within a few days of first visit. No underlying cause like umbilical sepsis was found. The baby had emergency repair of the hernia with an uneventful recovery. EL-MED-Pub 2017-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5593486/ /pubmed/28920027 http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/jns.v6i3.565 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Kittur et al 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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