Diverticulitis presenting as right incarcerated inguinal hernia
作者
Tung-Jung Liang, Chang-Mao Liu
卷期/出版年月
48卷2期 (2015/4)
頁次
62-64
摘要
Certain life-threatening diseases are often misjudged as groin hernias. This report presents an unusual condition of diverticulitis with an abscess resulting from a perforation but having the appearance of an incarcerated inguinal hernia. The clinical features demonstrated were not due to a strangulation of the contents in the hernia, but rather resulted from a
tracking of the pus from the peritoneal cavity into the hernia sac. Being in poor general condition, the patient underwent a laparoscopic repair of the sigmoid perforation and drainage of the intra-abdominal abscess. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged
14 days after the operation. Relevant literature is reviewed in the reporting of this rare case.