Incarcerated fat-containing femoral hernia

Case contributed by Yaïr Glick
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Lower abdominal pain.

Patient Data

Age: 50 years
Gender: Female

Left femoral hernia containing fat with stranding. No fat stranding around the hernia.

Case Discussion

For the past day, had vaginal-bilateral lower abdominal pain radiating to the anus and low back, exacerbated on urination. No dysuria.

CT abdomen revealed an incarcerated left femoral hernia containing fat. The rest of the scan was unremarkable.

She returned for an elective mesh hernioplasty.

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