Amyand’s hernia in a 5-year-old child: a case report and literature review

Amyand’s hernia in a child is a very rare entity. It poses a diagnostic challenge to the surgeon due to its variety of presentation. We are presenting a case of a 5-year-old child who presented to our institute with right-sided irreducible inguinal hernia. On exploration, the content of the hernia w...

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Autores principales: Khanal, Bhawani, Agrawal, Sunit, Gurung, Roshan, Sah, Suresh, Gupta, Rakesh Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7479644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32934789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa302
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author Khanal, Bhawani
Agrawal, Sunit
Gurung, Roshan
Sah, Suresh
Gupta, Rakesh Kumar
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description Amyand’s hernia in a child is a very rare entity. It poses a diagnostic challenge to the surgeon due to its variety of presentation. We are presenting a case of a 5-year-old child who presented to our institute with right-sided irreducible inguinal hernia. On exploration, the content of the hernia was caecum with normal appendix for which herniotomy with appendectomy was done.
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spelling pubmed-74796442020-09-14 Amyand’s hernia in a 5-year-old child: a case report and literature review Khanal, Bhawani Agrawal, Sunit Gurung, Roshan Sah, Suresh Gupta, Rakesh Kumar J Surg Case Rep Case Report Amyand’s hernia in a child is a very rare entity. It poses a diagnostic challenge to the surgeon due to its variety of presentation. We are presenting a case of a 5-year-old child who presented to our institute with right-sided irreducible inguinal hernia. On exploration, the content of the hernia was caecum with normal appendix for which herniotomy with appendectomy was done. Oxford University Press 2020-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7479644/ /pubmed/32934789 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa302 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2020. 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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Amyand’s hernia in a 5-year-old child: a case report and literature review
title Amyand’s hernia in a 5-year-old child: a case report and literature review
title_full Amyand’s hernia in a 5-year-old child: a case report and literature review
title_fullStr Amyand’s hernia in a 5-year-old child: a case report and literature review
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