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Anterior Hepatic Herniation: An Unusual Presentation of Abdominal Incisional Hernia

Hepatic herniation through an abdominal incisional hernia is a rare phenomenon that has been seldom reported in the medical literature. When present, this may cause patients significant distress and is associated with complications such as hepatic encephalopathy and Budd-Chiari syndrome. Most cases...

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Autores principales: Then, Eric O, John, Febin, Ofosu, Andrew, Gaduputi, Vinaya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6464280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31016093
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4066
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author Then, Eric O
John, Febin
Ofosu, Andrew
Gaduputi, Vinaya
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description Hepatic herniation through an abdominal incisional hernia is a rare phenomenon that has been seldom reported in the medical literature. When present, this may cause patients significant distress and is associated with complications such as hepatic encephalopathy and Budd-Chiari syndrome. Most cases can be managed conservatively through observation, but many cases require surgical intervention to preserve hepatic function. Our case consists of a 54-year-old man who presented with asymptomatic herniation of the left hepatic lobe through an abdominal incisional hernia.
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spelling pubmed-64642802019-04-23 Anterior Hepatic Herniation: An Unusual Presentation of Abdominal Incisional Hernia Then, Eric O John, Febin Ofosu, Andrew Gaduputi, Vinaya Cureus Internal Medicine Hepatic herniation through an abdominal incisional hernia is a rare phenomenon that has been seldom reported in the medical literature. When present, this may cause patients significant distress and is associated with complications such as hepatic encephalopathy and Budd-Chiari syndrome. Most cases can be managed conservatively through observation, but many cases require surgical intervention to preserve hepatic function. Our case consists of a 54-year-old man who presented with asymptomatic herniation of the left hepatic lobe through an abdominal incisional hernia. Cureus 2019-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6464280/ /pubmed/31016093 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4066 Text en Copyright © 2019, Then 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 author and source are credited.
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Then, Eric O
John, Febin
Ofosu, Andrew
Gaduputi, Vinaya
Anterior Hepatic Herniation: An Unusual Presentation of Abdominal Incisional Hernia
title Anterior Hepatic Herniation: An Unusual Presentation of Abdominal Incisional Hernia
title_full Anterior Hepatic Herniation: An Unusual Presentation of Abdominal Incisional Hernia
title_fullStr Anterior Hepatic Herniation: An Unusual Presentation of Abdominal Incisional Hernia
title_full_unstemmed Anterior Hepatic Herniation: An Unusual Presentation of Abdominal Incisional Hernia
title_short Anterior Hepatic Herniation: An Unusual Presentation of Abdominal Incisional Hernia
title_sort anterior hepatic herniation: an unusual presentation of abdominal incisional hernia
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6464280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31016093
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4066
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