Irreducible inguinal hernia with intrasaccular perforated sigmoid malignancy

Pari Muthukumar, Apoorva Prathap, Ezhilan Subramanian, Vishwanath Pai

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Irreducible inguinal hernias are commonly encountered in an emergency setting. The content is usually small bowel or omentum and diagnosis is made by physical examination. We present a case of an irreducible inguinal hernia, which on opening of the sac revealed a perforated sigmoid colonic growth as the content.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5430/css.v2n2p27

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