OBJECTIVE To investigate whether operative factors are associated with risk of surgical site infection (SSI) after hernia repair. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. Patients Commercially insured enrollees aged 6 months-64 years with International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification procedure or Current Procedural Terminology, fourth edition, codes for inguinal/fe...

Background: Laparoscopic or robotic TEP hernia repair represents a minimally invasive surgical technique used in treatment of inguinal femoral male female patients.

Femoral hernias are relatively rare in children, and more than half of pediatric femoral hernias are misdiagnosed. A 3-year-old boy was treated for an indirect inguinal hernia at the age of 2, but he exhibited an inguinal bulge one month after the operation. He underwent laparoscopy, and a right femoral hernia was detected. The femoral hernia was laparoscopically repaired via two small incision...

INTRODUCTION Small bowel obstruction (SBO) in the virgin abdomen usually requires operative intervention. Intestinal stenosis of Garré is a rare and frequently missed cause of SBO following hernia repair. METHODS We describe a case of intestinal stenosis of Garré and provide a comprehensive review of the literature. Statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics V.22 software an...

Objective To describe ultrasonographic appearance and diagnoses of incarcerated obturator hernia. Methods Three consecutive cases of incarcerated obturator hernia examined preoperatively with ultrasound were presented to show the pitfalls in the application of ultrasound for the recognition of the entity. Retrospectively reviewed, ultrasound directly demonstrated an incarcerated obturator herni...

We wish to report on a 28-year-old Sudanese woman who presented with a swelling in the left groin (Fig.1). The swelling had been present for a few months and was slowly increasing in size. It had previously been partially reducible, but was now irreducible. The patient was a fit young woman, with full flanks, a large spleen and moderate ascites. The large, irreducible left groin cystic mass tra...

INTRODUCTION Groin hernia repair is a commonly performed surgical procedure in the western world but large-scaled epidemiologic data are sparse. Large-scale data on the occurrence of groin hernia repair may provide further understanding to the pathophysiology of groin hernia development. This study was undertaken to investigate the age and gender dependent prevalence of groin hernia repair. M...

BACKGROUND Richter's obturator hernia is a rare abdominal hernia that is difficult to diagnose. The purpose of this case report is to show an unusual presentation of a fatal Richter's obturator hernia that was accompanied by a femoral abscess. CASE REPORT An 89-year-old woman complained of sudden left coxalgia and a gait disorder but no abdominal symptoms. She had no history of trauma or surger...

The differential diagnosis of a lipoma in the femoral region will include a femoral hernia and vice-versa or both may coexist.