A successful case report in woman: A gender medicine?

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Submitted: April 15, 2019
Published: May 7, 2019
DOI: 10.29328/journal.ascr.1001029
Keywords:
Woman, Surgery, Abdominal hernia

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Emilio Laviscio
Department of Surgery, Hospital Marcianise, Caserta, Italy
Tiziana Ciarambino
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Marcianise, Caserta, Italy
Annita Imbriani
Department of Surgery, Hospital Marcianise, Caserta, Italy
Mauro Giordano
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Marcianise, Caserta, Italy
Filippo Topo
Department of Surgery, Hospital Marcianise, Caserta, Italy

Abstract

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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Laviscio, E., Ciarambino, T., Imbriani, A., Giordano, M., & Topo, F. (2019). A successful case report in woman: A gender medicine? . Archives of Surgery and Clinical Research, 3(1), 032–033. https://doi.org/10.29328/journal.ascr.1001029
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