Aim of Work: To evaluate the type, prevalence, presentation, and complications of congenital inguinal hernia in children at Assiut University Hospital and South Valley University. Patients and Methods: Between 2000 and 2011, at Pediatric Surgery Unit, Assiut University Hospital and South Valley University, a retrospective study of 1957 patients with congenital inguinal hernia, the medical recor...

Congenital hiatal hernia with herniation of stomach into thorax is not uncommon in children but this herniation is usually seen in midline or on left side. However, right sided intrathoracic stomach with its organoaxial torsion secondary to congenital hiatal hernia is a rare occurrence. Barium meal examination is essential for its diagnosis but plain x-ray of the abdomen can arouse the suspicio...

Incidence Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) refers to a congenital defect in the posterolateral diaphragm at the “foramen of Bochdalek.” It is a relatively common cause of neonatal respiratory distress with an overall incidence between 1:2000 and 1:5000 live births. CDH accounts for about 90% of congenital diaphragmatic defects. Eighty to ninety percent of congenital diaphragmatic hernias o...

Prenatal MRI fetal lung volumes and percent liver herniation predict pulmonary morbidity in congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). J Pediatr Surg 2014;49:688-93. 17. Le LD, Keswani SG, Biesiada J, Lim FY, Kingma PS, Haberman BE, et al. The congenital diaphragmatic hernia composite prognostic index correlates with survival in leftsided congenital diaphragmatic hernia. J Pediatr Surg 2012;47:57-6...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia are reported to have evidence of brain MR imaging abnormalities. Our study aimed to identify perinatal clinical factors in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia that are associated with evidence of brain injury on MR imaging performed before hospital discharge. MATERIALS AND METHODS MRIs performed before hospital disch...

for decompression colonoscopy having been admitted 2 days previously for bow− el obstruction. Upon admission, the patient had slight abdominal distension. Analgesic and laxative treatments were initiated but proved ineffective, and conventional radiography showed increasing disten− sion of the cecum. Colonoscopy was per− formed up to the left colonic flexure (l" Fig. 1 a), and radiographic cont...

We report four cases of congenital diaphragmatic hernia occurring in two generations of a consanguineous Pakistani family. The affected subjects resembled no recognised genetic syndrome. This family provides further evidence for possible autosomal recessive inheritance of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in some cases.

Case summary Cranial ventral midline hernias, most often congenital, can be associated with other congenital abnormalities, such as sternal, diaphragmatic or cardiac malformations. A 4-year-old multiparous queen with a substernal hernia was admitted for evaluation of a mammary mass. During CT examination, a bifid sternum, the abdominal hernia containing the intestines, spleen, omentum, three fe...

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia generally presents with severe respiratory distress in the neonatal period and usually occurs once in every 2,000-3500 births. Although a late presen-tation is uncommon, congenital diaphragmatic hernia should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any child with unusual respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms and abnormal chest radiographic findings.

Congenital transmesenteric hernia in neonates is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction with devastating outcomes. Patients are often managed with urgent surgical exploration and may require extensive bowel resection.[1-3] We present a case of a newborn presenting with intestinal obstruction found to have a strangulated transmesenteric hernia through a congenital defect in the ileal mesentery, ...