Amyand's Hernia: Review of the Literature

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 femoral hernia, it called Garengeot's recognition René Jacques Croissant de Garengeot (1688-1759), French was describe from indirect 1731; this case, did not present inflammatory signs. Diagnosis generally intraoperative, since being infrequent pathology, without specific symptoms and requiring high diagnostic suspicion, preoperative diagnosis usually exceptional.