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Obstructing sigmoid cancer in a patient with a large, tender, non‐reducible inguinal hernia: the obvious diagnosis is not always the correct one
Author(s) -
SAKORAFAS G.H.,
PEROS G.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
european journal of cancer care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1365-2354
pISSN - 0961-5423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2007.00811.x
Subject(s) - medicine , inguinal hernia , hernia , sigmoid colon , general surgery , surgery , rectum
We present a 85‐year‐old patient with intestinal obstruction and a large, tender, non‐reducible right inguinal hernia. He was operated with the presumed diagnosis of strangulated inguinal hernia. At surgery, a perforated obstructing sigmoid colon was diagnosed. A sigmoidectomy (Hartman procedure) and hernia repair (Bassini technique) was performed.