A 68 year old female presented for elective repair of an abdominal wall hernia. Preoperative CT imaging revealed a right inguinal hernia defect with hernia contents coursing cephalad between the external and internal abdominal oblique muscles. This was consistent with an interstitial inguinal hernia, a rare entity outside of post- traumatic hernias. At operation the hernia contents were reduced...

BACKGROUND AND AIM It has been reported that femoral hernias are rather common after a previous repair of inguinal hernia. We herein present a modified patch repair technique for large femoral hernias that develop after a Lichtenstein operation for ipsilateral inguinal hernia. PATIENTS AND METHODS The modified technique for femoral hernia was applied to three patients who had a Lichtenstein r...

Abstract The patient was 67 yrs old gentlemen. Swelling over the Left groin for last one and half year with recent onset discomfort. He operated on same side 2 years back open suregry. On clinical examination - large scrotal reducile hernia observed, another reducible herinia primary obseved right side. also having symptoms of bladder outlet obstruction which tablet. silodosin started. A comple...

A complicated case of large substernocostal hernia in a 67-year-old man is described. A new surgical approach via upper laparotomy which can be extended by a lower median sternotomy, allowing complete access to the hernia was tried successfully and the patient's recovery was uneventful. A hernia occurring through a retrosternal defect first described by Morgagni in 1769 has received many names,...

A 76-year-old female patient presented to our hospital because of skin necrosis with purulent exudate from a four to five-standing relapsed umbilical hernia with no associated fever, vomiting, or bowel obstruction signs. Her relevant history included diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure, as well as hernioplasty for an umbilical hernia that relapsed twice. Examination reveals a large tender...

Dear Editor, Spigelian hernia can be described as a protrusion of a peritoneal sac, organ, or preperitoneal fat through a congenital or acquired defect in the Spigelian fascia, which is the part transeversus abdominis aponeurosis that lies between the semilunar (Spigelian) line and the lateral edge of the rectus muscle, often above the inferior epigastric vessels, at the level of the arcuate li...

We present a rare case of Amyand's hernia that was surgically managed using an open repair of hernia combined with laparoscopic appendicectomy. A 68-year-old man presented with an irreducible recurrent right-sided inguinal hernia and abdominal pain. This gentleman had undergone three previous inguinal hernia repairs on the right, and one on the left using the open mesh technique. Ultrasound sug...