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A Rare Cause of Medial Thigh Pain: Does Point-of-Care Ultrasound Scan Have a Role in the Diagnosis of Obturator Hernia in the Emergency Room?
Obturator hernia describes the protrusion of the intra-abdominal viscus through the obturator foramen. It accounts for 0.05-1.4% of all hernias. We present a case of a 72-year-old female, with right-sided inner thigh pain of sudden onset who was subsequently diagnosed with an obturator hernia in the...
Autores principales: | Ibrahim, Yakub W, Tabi, Philip, Yusuf, Abdurrahman |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cureus
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9907379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36779097 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33547 |
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