RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Perforated appendicitis within paraumbilical hernia
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 1133
OP 1134
VO 24
IS 10
A1 Al-Qahtani, Hamad H.
A1 Al-Qahtani, Tariq Z.
YR 2003
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/24/10/1133.abstract
AB The appendix is not uncommonly encountered within an external hernial sac. However, acute appendicitis in hernia is quite rare. We report a female patient who was admitted and operated as a case of incarcerated, strangulated paraumbilical hernia and the hernial sac was found to contain part of the greater omentum, pus and acutely inflamed, gangrenous appendix, perforated at the tip. Appendicectomy and hernial repair were carried out through the same incision.