Appendicitis within an Amyand’s hernia: a surprising finding

Amyand’s hernia is a rare type of hernia where the appendix is found within the hernial sac. We present a case of appendicitis within an Amyand’s hernia in a 72-year-old man who presented with a acutely painful, irreducible right inguinal lump. He underwent open appendicectomy and primary tissue rep...

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Autores principales: Chiong, Corinna, Yoon, Peter, Boseto, Fred
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6413376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30886693
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz055
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description Amyand’s hernia is a rare type of hernia where the appendix is found within the hernial sac. We present a case of appendicitis within an Amyand’s hernia in a 72-year-old man who presented with a acutely painful, irreducible right inguinal lump. He underwent open appendicectomy and primary tissue repair with subsequent delayed elective mesh hernioplasty 3 months later.
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spelling pubmed-64133762019-03-18 Appendicitis within an Amyand’s hernia: a surprising finding Chiong, Corinna Yoon, Peter Boseto, Fred J Surg Case Rep Case Report Amyand’s hernia is a rare type of hernia where the appendix is found within the hernial sac. We present a case of appendicitis within an Amyand’s hernia in a 72-year-old man who presented with a acutely painful, irreducible right inguinal lump. He underwent open appendicectomy and primary tissue repair with subsequent delayed elective mesh hernioplasty 3 months later. Oxford University Press 2019-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6413376/ /pubmed/30886693 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz055 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6413376/
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