Introduction: Traumatic Abdominal Wall Hernia (TAWH) is a rare kind of hernia. The diagnosis of TAWHs can be challenging and TAWHs may go undiagnosed for long periods of time. Case presentation: A sixty-year-old male who had been involved in a car crash 10 years earlier was referred to us for a giant post-traumatic umbilical hernia. The clinical assessment revealed an irreducible huge hernia of...

We report a case of traumatic inguinal hernia following blunt abdominal trauma after a road traffic accident and describe the circumstances and technique of repair. The patient suffered multiple upper limb fractures and developed acute swelling of the right groin and scrotum. CT scan confirmed the acute formation of a traumatic inguinal hernia. Surgical repair was deferred until resolution of t...

The most common cause of traumatic diaphragmatic rupture is blunt or penetrating thoraco-abdominal trauma. The proper diagnosis can be difficult to make due to the non-specific clinical picture. The surgical approach in managing diaphragmatic rupture includes laparotomy, thoracotomy, or both. This article presents a case of a 60year-old woman with post-traumatic peritoneopericardial diaphragmat...

background diaphragmatic hernia after blunt trauma is an uncommon and often undiagnosed condition. objectives we aimed to review patients who presented with delayed blunt traumatic hernia of diaphragm. patients and methods in this retrospective study, the medical records of six patients treated for blunt diaphragmatic hernias who were admitted to kashan shahid beheshti hospital between june 200...

Iatrogenic right diaphragmatic hernia is very rare. We report the first case of a patient who had a diaphragmatic hernia after laparoscopic fenestration of liver cyst. A herniorrhaphy of the diaphragmatic defect was carried out after reducing the herniated organ. The postoperative course was uneventful. Diaphragmatic hernias are not as common as the traumatic type. Surgeons can easily miss diap...

Handlebar hernias are abdominal wall hernias resulting from direct trauma to the anterior abdominal wall and also called as Traumatic abdominal wall hernias (TAWHs). They usually occur at weak anatomic locations of the abdominal wall .The associated intra-abdominal injuries are infrequent. . Such traumatic hernias are rare. We report this case of a handlebar hernia resulting from an injury sust...

Traumatic reticulo-peritonitis and diaphragmatic hernia are the known serious sequelae of digestive disturbance and recurrent tympani in bovines. Further, traumatic pericarditis and lung abscess are results of penetration of pericardium and lung by a sharp penetrating foreign body respectively. In chronic cases, it becomes very difficult to differentiate between these conditions. Hence, on the ...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Although blunt trauma to a hernia-containing bowel is known to cause bowel perforation, this report documents the first incident of a small bowel transection following a non-traumatic event. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 49-year-old African American man with a chronic incarcerated inguinal hernia awaiting elective repair. He presented to the Emergency De...