Abstract | BACKGROUND: METHODS: The authors report on two cases of mechanical bowel obstruction due to incarcerated obturator hernia in elderly, thin women. Both patients presented with clinical and radiological signs of small bowel obstruction. Neither of them had the Howship-Romberg or Hannington-Kiff sign. RESULTS: At laparotomy, incarcerated small bowel in a right-sided obturator hernia was observed in both patients. The small bowel was not necrotic, and no bowel resection was performed. The hernial defect was closed in two layers with interrupted and purse-string nonabsorbable sutures. CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | C D Shipkov, A P Uchikov, E Grigoriadis |
Journal | Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery
(Hernia)
Vol. 8
Issue 2
Pg. 155-7
(May 2004)
ISSN: 1265-4906 [Print] France |
PMID | 15015037
(Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Female
- Hernia, Obturator
(complications, diagnosis, surgery)
- Humans
- Intestinal Obstruction
(etiology)
- Intestine, Small
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