A case of intestinal obstruction in a 90-year-old patient at a tertiary hospital in Central Saudi Arabia with a rare cause: obturator hernia!

Obturator hernia is a pelvic floor type of hernia in which abdominal or pelvic contents protrude through the obturator foramen. It is considered rare in patients with signs and symptoms of intestinal obstruction causing a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. This case reports a 91-year-old multiparo...

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Autores principales: Sulaihim, Zeinah, Alsaadon, Lina, Alsuhaibani, Roaa Saleh, Alfaleh, Hana, Albabtain, Ibrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8860489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35198147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac044
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author Sulaihim, Zeinah
Alsaadon, Lina
Alsuhaibani, Roaa Saleh
Alfaleh, Hana
Albabtain, Ibrahim
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Alsaadon, Lina
Alsuhaibani, Roaa Saleh
Alfaleh, Hana
Albabtain, Ibrahim
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description Obturator hernia is a pelvic floor type of hernia in which abdominal or pelvic contents protrude through the obturator foramen. It is considered rare in patients with signs and symptoms of intestinal obstruction causing a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. This case reports a 91-year-old multiparous female who presented with vague lower abdominal pain associated with obstipation and vomiting. We present a successful laparoscopic repair of obturator hernia in an elderly female.
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spelling pubmed-88604892022-02-22 A case of intestinal obstruction in a 90-year-old patient at a tertiary hospital in Central Saudi Arabia with a rare cause: obturator hernia! Sulaihim, Zeinah Alsaadon, Lina Alsuhaibani, Roaa Saleh Alfaleh, Hana Albabtain, Ibrahim J Surg Case Rep Case Report Obturator hernia is a pelvic floor type of hernia in which abdominal or pelvic contents protrude through the obturator foramen. It is considered rare in patients with signs and symptoms of intestinal obstruction causing a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. This case reports a 91-year-old multiparous female who presented with vague lower abdominal pain associated with obstipation and vomiting. We present a successful laparoscopic repair of obturator hernia in an elderly female. Oxford University Press 2022-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8860489/ /pubmed/35198147 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac044 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Sulaihim, Zeinah
Alsaadon, Lina
Alsuhaibani, Roaa Saleh
Alfaleh, Hana
Albabtain, Ibrahim
A case of intestinal obstruction in a 90-year-old patient at a tertiary hospital in Central Saudi Arabia with a rare cause: obturator hernia!
title A case of intestinal obstruction in a 90-year-old patient at a tertiary hospital in Central Saudi Arabia with a rare cause: obturator hernia!
title_full A case of intestinal obstruction in a 90-year-old patient at a tertiary hospital in Central Saudi Arabia with a rare cause: obturator hernia!
title_fullStr A case of intestinal obstruction in a 90-year-old patient at a tertiary hospital in Central Saudi Arabia with a rare cause: obturator hernia!
title_full_unstemmed A case of intestinal obstruction in a 90-year-old patient at a tertiary hospital in Central Saudi Arabia with a rare cause: obturator hernia!
title_short A case of intestinal obstruction in a 90-year-old patient at a tertiary hospital in Central Saudi Arabia with a rare cause: obturator hernia!
title_sort case of intestinal obstruction in a 90-year-old patient at a tertiary hospital in central saudi arabia with a rare cause: obturator hernia!
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8860489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35198147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac044
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