Background: Inguinal hernia repair is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in infants and young children. Laparoscopic hernia repair in infancy and childhood is still debatable. There are many techniques available for laparoscopic hernia repair in pediatrics. Purpose: to compare laparoscopic intracorporeal purse-string suture ligation of the hernia defect leaving the sac int...

INTRODUCTION Groin hernia repair is a commonly performed surgical procedure in the western world but large-scaled epidemiologic data are sparse. Large-scale data on the occurrence of groin hernia repair may provide further understanding to the pathophysiology of groin hernia development. This study was undertaken to investigate the age and gender dependent prevalence of groin hernia repair. M...

turner syndrome is a sex-chromosome disorder occurring in one out of 2500 female births and characterized by growth retardation, gonadal dysgenesis and cardiovascular anomalies. the 45, xo karyotype is the most frequent type of this disease. herein, we report on a 6-year-old girl with turner syndrome and 45, xo karyotype presenting with short stature. she had dextrocardia and hiatal hernia. to ...

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...

Inguinal Hernia is undoubtedly a very common case dealt by every surgeon all over the world. Amyand's hernia is an extremely rare variety of hernia in which the inguinal hernia sac contains the appendix. This unusual situation is estimated to occur in approximately 0.6 to one percent of adult inguinal hernia cases. Te pre-surgical diagnosis of Amyand's hernia is exceedingly difficult. This arti...

INTRODUCTION Bochdalek hernia is a type of congenital diaphragmatic hernia that typically presents in childhood - the clinical manifestation of symptoms and diagnosis in adults is extremely rare. There are fewer than 20 cases of right-sided Bochdalek hernia reported in adults in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION We review a case of a 38-year-old woman with a right-sided Bochdalek hernia who w...

Only a small percentage of patients with inguinal or abdominal wall hernias present with acute abdominal pain. Typically, a physical bulge is present that may or may not be uncomfortable at the time of examination. The diagnosis of hernia is usually easy, and operative management strategies are well defined. However, it would be misleading to say that discomfort rarely accompanies hernia. As a ...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the surgical approach in post traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. methods: this prospective cross-sectional study was conducted in the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, sher-i- kashmir institute of medical sciences (skims), kashmir, india. we included all patients with post traumatic diaphragmatic hernia undergoing operation in our ...

An 85-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of appetite loss and vomiting. She had no previous history of abdominal surgery, trauma, or intra-abdominal inflammation. Following the diagnosis of a small bowel obstruction due to an incarcerated left inguinal hernia, manual hernia repositioning was attempted, and proceeded smoothly. However, 42 hour after the procedure, she suddenly d...

PURPOSE Coskun hernia repair technique has been reported to be an effective new fascia transversalis repair with its short-term follow-up results. Our aim is to determine the results of Coskun hernia repair technique and to compare it with Lichtenstein technique. METHODS At this comparative retrospective study a total of 493 patients, who had groin hernia repair procedure using Coskun or Lich...