New facts with regard to Strangulated Hernia

Strangulated Hernia

History.?Just two weeks before the patient had a huge swelling in the inguinal canal stretching up to the scrotum and all the signs of intestinal obstruction, but no medical help was available. On the sixth day the scrotum sloughed and fecal matter began to flow out through the wound. He was brought to the hospital on the fifteenth day after the onset in an extremely emaciated condition. On exa...

Strangulated Hernia

The following data have been drawn from an analysis of the cases of strangulated hernia* (inguinal, femoral and umbilical) admitted to the Bristol Royal Infirmary during the years 1927-1929 inclusive :?

Strangulated Spigelian hernia.

Spigelian herniae rarely present as emergencies. There have been two cases requiring emergency surgery at this hospital within the last 5 years, representing 2.4% of all abdominal wall herniae requiring urgent treatment for strangulation.

Cases of Strangulated Hernia

was not very large. It had never before been obstructed ; the symptoms of strangulation, vomiting and constipation with pain in the tumour and abdomen, had set in twenty hours before admission. The ordinary measures?taxis under chloroform,enemata, ice applied to the tumour?having faded, the operation was performed. The stricture was found at the external ring, and was divided without opening th...

A Strangulated Hernia