Abstract

  Inguinal hernia with an appendix trapped in it is called an Amyands hernia. The overall incidence of Amyands hernia is only around 1 %. Most dreaded complications of this type of hernia is incarceration or perforation. Inguinal and femoral hernias are more prone for Incarceration of the appendix. In this case review we present to you a Amyands hernia with a caecal diverticula with associated complications with Inguinal hernia.

Keywords: Inguinal; Hernia; Appendicitis; Caecal Diverticula; Perforation

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Citation

Citation: Tejasvi Kumar C., et al. “Inguinal Hernia or Pandoras Box?". Acta Scientific Clinical Case Reports 1.10 (2020): 13-16.

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Copyright: © 2020 Tejasvi Kumar C., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.