background: benign joint hypermobility syndrome (bjhs) is a disorder due to laxity of supporting connective tissue of joints. inguinal hernia is also proposed due to weak supporting tissue that may be a clinical presentation of a more widespread problem of connective tissue. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, prevalence of benign hypermobility joint syndrome (bhjs) was assessed ...

conclusions magnesium infiltration did not decrease total dose and number of episodes needed for morphine rescue analgesic. bupivacaine infiltration into surgical site was more effective than magnesium sulfate infiltration in postoperative pain control. objectives to compare postoperative analgesic effect of infiltration of magnesium versus bupivacaine into incision of inguinal hernia repair. p...

Spillage of gallstones during laparoscopic cholecystectomy is not a rare event. We present a patient with spilled calculi causing an incarcerated hernia.

A 69-year-old man was admitted with a complaint of left irreducible inguinal mass. On surgical exploration no evidence of hernia was found and the inguinal floor was overwhelmed by a large lobulated mass, arising from the properitoneal fat, that involved the spermatic cord. The mass was partially removed, sparing the elements of cord. The transversalis fascia was repaired by direct suture and a...

CASE 1. An 83 year old man presented with a 48 hr history of vomiting and constipation. He was pyrexial, the abdomen was distended, and a tender swelling was present in the medial aspect of the right groin, below the inguinal ligament. A diagnosis of incarcerated femoral hernia was made. Exploration through a McEvedy incision revealed strangulation and necrosis of a loop of small bowel and of t...

Amyand's hernia was coined after Claudius Amyand (1660-1740), who was the first to describe the presence of a perforated appendix in a hernial sac and also was the first to perform a successful appendectomy in 1735. It is an exceptionally rare condition in which the hernia itself contains the appendix, which may not necessarily be inflamed. The presence of an inflamed appendix further contribut...

OBJECTIVES To verify whether abdominal pressure during urination represents an important factor in the postoperative development of inguinal hernia after radical retropubic prostatectomy. METHODS Participants comprised 228 patients who underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy without prophylaxis for inguinal herniation between 2002 and 2007. Development of inguinal hernia was assessed from ...