Abstract

Case Report

A successful case report in woman: A gender medicine?

Emilio Laviscio, Tiziana Ciarambino*, Annita Imbriani, Mauro Giordano and Filippo Topo

Published: 07 May, 2019 | Volume 3 - Issue 1 | Pages: 032-033

Introduction: Abdominal hernia is a pathological condition resulting from abnormal protrusion of abdominal viscera. In particular, internal hernias (IH) represents about 0.2-0.9% of all cases with para- duodenal hernias while obturator hernias accounting for only 0.07% of all hernias.

Methods: We reported the case report of 79 year old women who was admitted to Internal Medicine Department of our Hospital for lung failure and after few days transferred to our Surgery Department for abdominal pain.

Conclusion: Obturator hernia is rare type of hernia and it is more frequent in older women with history of multiple pregnancy, chronic cough, and habitual constipation. In our patients, detailed physical examination and MRI preoperative imaging studies, have induce to the successful diagnosis.

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Keywords:

Woman; Surgery; Abdominal hernia

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