Lumbar hernias are rare posterolateral abdominal wall defects that may be congenital or acquired. There are two types of lumbar hernia, the superior lumbar hernia through Grynfeltt triangle, and the inferior lumbar hernia through Petit triangle. Many techniques have been described for the surgical repair of lumbar hernias including primary repair, local tissue flaps, and conventional mesh repai...

Amyand's hernia (appendix in the sac of an inguinal hernia) although rare is a fairly well-recognized clinical entity. It is associated with an increased risk of developing appendicitis. Amyand's hernia can be repaired by open or laparoscopic methods. We present the case of a laparoscopic extraperitoneal repair with a potential hazard when repairing this type of hernia in this manner, and we re...

Local fat infiltration of the thoracic cavity is a rare initial presentation of Bochdalek hernia. We report a case of Bochdalek hernia in a child with leukemia that demonstrated initial local fat infiltration of the thoracic cavity on computed tomography scan and progressed to an obvious diaphragmatic hernia on subsequent follow-up. We suggest that initial local fat infiltration of the thoracic...

Herniorrhaphy, which is the surgical repair of a hernia, is one of the commonest procedures performed by general surgeons, with over 40,000 hernia operations performed annually in Australia. Approximately 75 percent of abdominal hernias are inguinal and these may contain omentum, bowel and rarely the appendix. The presence of the vermiform appendix, whether inflamed or not, inside the hernia sa...

Incarcerated inguinal hernia is often encountered by surgeons in daily practice. Although rare, hernial reduction en masse is a potential complication of manual reduction of an incarcerated hernia. Manual reduction was performed in a case of Zollinger classification type VII (combined type) hernia in which the indirect hernia portion included an incarcerated small intestine. This procedure caus...

BACKGROUND Bochdalek hernia is a type of congenital diaphragmatic hernia that typically presents in childhood, while this diseases is extremely rare in adults. CASE PRESENTATION We review a case of a 63-year-old man with a left-sided Bochdalek hernia who was experiencing occasional pain at the left side of his chest for 8 months. The diagnosis of Bochdalek hernia was made by chest computed to...

Femoral hernia accounts for only 3% of all the hernias and in only 0.5%-5% of the events, the appendix can travel through the femoral hernia which is called De Garengeot hernia, and the incidence of appendicitis in this type of hernia is as low as 0.08%-0.13%. We present a case of a 69-year-old healthy woman who was referred to the emergency department by her general practitioner for CT-proven ...

abstract: introduction & objective: postoperative pain management and narcotic usage after inguinal hernia repair is an important concern for anesthesiologists and surgeons. the purpose of this study was to find out whether the use of local anesthetic nerve block in ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric region by bupivacaine could reduce postoperative pain and hospital admission periods after inguin...

Malignant epithelial tumors presenting within the hernia sacs are rare, occurring in 0.14% of all surgically removed adult hernia sac cases [1]. Most reports document inguinal or umbilical hernia sac with metastatic adenocarcinoma from multiple organs [1-4]. To the best of our knowledge, no cases of ventral hernia sac with metastatic urothelial carcinoma have been previously reported. We herein...

BACKGROUND The combination of perforated diverticulitis in a lumbar hernia constitutes an extremely rare condition. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a 66 year old Caucasian woman presenting with perforated sigmoid diverticulitis localized in a lumbar hernia following iliac crest bone graft performed 18 years ago. Emergency treatment consisted of laparoscopic peritoneal lavage. Elective s...