Can J Surg, Vol. 47, No. 1, February 2004 69 hernia neck contains the purulent content. This
suggests that acute appendicitis in femoral hernia may be a consequence of incarceration …

Background: Femoral hernia can rarely present with the content of appendicitis. We report
on an elderly female who was admitted to our emergency department with a painful groin …

Abstract Introduction Rene De Garengeot, a French surgeon, was the first to describe the
presence of the appendix inside a femoral hernia sac in 1731. It is a rare entity that has …

Appendicitis and incarcerated hernia are frequently encountered reasons of emergency
surgery for acute abdomen. The treatment in early stages of each condition is generally …

Although most groin masses are simple hernias, occasionally these hernias contain more
than just small intestine. Femoral hernias, which are less common than inguinal, are more …

The presentation of acute appendicitis in a strangulated femoral hernia is rare. The authors
describe what they believe is the first reported case of necrotizing fasciitis as a consequence …

We came across three rare cases of incarcerated hernia, with different presentations. The
first case was an elderly female, who presented with an incarcerated incisional hernia on the …

Amyand's hernia was coined after Claudius Amyand (1660–1740), who was the first to
describe the presence of a perforated appendix in a hernial sac and also was the first to …

We report a case of acute perforated appendicitis in an incarcerated inguinal hernia, termed
an Amyand's hernia. Although perforated appendicitis within an incarcerated inguinal hernia …

We present a case of surgically proved acute appendicitis strangulated in a femoral hernia
sac. Multidetector computed tomography with multiplanar reformations was thought to be …