Introduction: Single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) has become more popular for various surgical procedures including hernia surgery. Initial results of SILS in elective hernia repair were comparable to those of conventional laparoscopic approaches. However the use of SILS in emergency case has not been widely reported. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of the use of single inc...

INTRODUCTION The employment of a diversity of prosthetic materials and several types of mesh different in construction is opening a new chapter in hernia surgery and tension-free techniques are becoming a "golden standard" for repairing abdominal wall defects, whereas the conventional methods, i.e., the tension techniques are performed on young patients having small direct, indirect, or femoral...

Paraduodenal hernias are infrequently occurring rotational anomalies. We report a case of a right paraduodenal hernia repaired via laparoscopy, which occurred in a 13-year-old boy.

Femoral hernia is one of the rare types groin hernia. Though classical clinical examination findings for its accurate diagnosis are well documented, it very often gets mistaken much commoner inguinal Traditionally, has been surgically repaired by open approach. However, advent laparoscopy brought femoral repair under purview. The purpose this study to evaluate incidence in our series and outcom...

BACKGROUND Inguinal hernias account for 75% of abdominal wall hernias, with a lifetime risk of 27% in men and 3% in women. Major complications are recurrence, chronic pain, and surgical site infection, but their frequency is low. Few studies have reported a calcified mesh causing neuropathy by chronic compression of the femoral nerve after mesh & plug inguinal hernia repair. This is the first r...

Case A well nourished 43-year-old female presented with intestinal obstruction and a tender irreducible left femoral hernia. A viable loop of ileum was released from the hernia via a low inguinal approach and the small bowel proximal and distal were carefully examined. The femoral hernia was repaired and the patient made a slow but steady recovery, being discharged on the sixth postoperative da...

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Amyand's hernia is defined as the presence of cecal appendix inside sac an inguinal hernia. The can be normal, inflamed, perforated or gangrenous, but first situation most frequent. name "Amyand's hernia" due to English surgeon Claudius Amyand (1681-1740), who in 1735 performed appendectomy on 11-year-old boy during surgery for incarcerated that contained its inner.1,2 When vermiform found a fe...