Small bowel obstruction as a result of an obturator hernia: a rare cause and a challenging diagnosis

Obturator hernias are exceedingly rare in surgical routine, constituting 0.073% of all intra-abdominal hernias in the West and 1% in the far East. Commonly known as ‘little old lady’s hernia’, obturator hernias are usually seen in frail, octogenarian multiparous women. This case report discusses an...

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Autores principales: Pavlidis, Efstathios, Kosmidis, Christoforos, Sapalidis, Konstantinos, Tsakalidis, Alexandros, Giannakidis, Dimitrios, Rafailidis, Vasileios, Koimtzis, Georgios, Kesisoglou, Isaak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6030978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29992011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjy161

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6030978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29992011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjy161

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