Femoral hernia with vermiform appendix herniation: a case report and review of the literature

Femoral hernias constitute 2–4% of all groin hernia repairs. Herniation of the vermiform appendix into the femoral hernia sac is rare. The majority of patients with appendix hernias are asymptomatic and diagnosis is made intraoperatively. We report about a case of a female patient presenting with an...

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Autores principales: Papatheofani, Vasiliki, Estaller, Wolfgang, Hoffmann, Tomas F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7963455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33758651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab036
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description Femoral hernias constitute 2–4% of all groin hernia repairs. Herniation of the vermiform appendix into the femoral hernia sac is rare. The majority of patients with appendix hernias are asymptomatic and diagnosis is made intraoperatively. We report about a case of a female patient presenting with an irreducible right-sided femoral hernia without symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-79634552021-03-22 Femoral hernia with vermiform appendix herniation: a case report and review of the literature Papatheofani, Vasiliki Estaller, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Tomas F J Surg Case Rep Case Report Femoral hernias constitute 2–4% of all groin hernia repairs. Herniation of the vermiform appendix into the femoral hernia sac is rare. The majority of patients with appendix hernias are asymptomatic and diagnosis is made intraoperatively. We report about a case of a female patient presenting with an irreducible right-sided femoral hernia without symptoms. Oxford University Press 2021-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7963455/ /pubmed/33758651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab036 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2021. 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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Femoral hernia with vermiform appendix herniation: a case report and review of the literature
title Femoral hernia with vermiform appendix herniation: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Femoral hernia with vermiform appendix herniation: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Femoral hernia with vermiform appendix herniation: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Femoral hernia with vermiform appendix herniation: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Femoral hernia with vermiform appendix herniation: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort femoral hernia with vermiform appendix herniation: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7963455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33758651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab036
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