Publication: Stone ingestion causing obstructed inguinal hernia with perforation
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Issued Date
2014
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application/pdf
ISSN
1896725
Other identifier(s)
2-s2.0-84901466474
Rights Holder(s)
Scopus
Bibliographic Citation
African Journal of Paediatric Surgery. Vol 11, No.2 (2014), p.191-193
Suggested Citation
Sookpotarom P., Ariyawatku K., Paramagu P., Sakulisariyaporn C., Stimanont T., Vejchapipat P. Stone ingestion causing obstructed inguinal hernia with perforation. African Journal of Paediatric Surgery. Vol 11, No.2 (2014), p.191-193. doi:10.4103/0189-6725.132836 Retrieved from: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14740/7494
Abstract
We report a rare case of obstructed right inguinal hernia caused by ingested stones. A 2 year-old boy from Northern Thailand was transferred to our hospital with low-grade fever, vomiting, and acute painful swelling at his right hemiscrotum for one day. The physical examination revealed marked enlargement with inflammation in his right hemiscrotum. The radiological findings showed huge number of stones in the right hemiscrotum. At surgery, the content of hernia sac was ascending colon, which was full of hard masses. With the help of additional lower transverse abdominal incision, the obstructed segment was successfully reduced and revealed a perforation. Most of the stones were removed through the perforation. The colonic wound was primarily repaired and both incisions were primarily closed. Although he developed post-operative wound infection, the boy had uneventfully recovered. The psychological exploration in this «stone pica» revealed no other psychological disorders.
Subject(s)
Case report
Complication
Follow up
Foreign Bodies
Foreign-Body Migration
Hernia, Inguinal
Human
Intestinal Obstruction
Male
Preschool child
Radiography
Risk assessment
Scrotum
Thailand
Treatment outcome
Child, Preschool
Follow-Up Studies
Foreign Bodies
Foreign-Body Migration
Hernia, Inguinal
Humans
Intestinal Obstruction
Male
Risk Assessment
Scrotum
Thailand
Treatment Outcome
Complication
Follow up
Foreign Bodies
Foreign-Body Migration
Hernia, Inguinal
Human
Intestinal Obstruction
Male
Preschool child
Radiography
Risk assessment
Scrotum
Thailand
Treatment outcome
Child, Preschool
Follow-Up Studies
Foreign Bodies
Foreign-Body Migration
Hernia, Inguinal
Humans
Intestinal Obstruction
Male
Risk Assessment
Scrotum
Thailand
Treatment Outcome