Incarcerated inguinal hernia containing urinary bladder and bladder calculi.

Inguinoscrotal herniation of the bladder is an uncommon condition. Clinicians should have a high index of suspicion for involvement of the bladder within a hernia when the lower urinary tract urinary symptoms are concurrently present in patients presenting with a painful groin lump. We report the case of a patient who presented with an inguinoscrotal hernia involving the urinary bladder, which was irreducible due to the fact that the herniated portion of the bladder contains multiple containing calculi.

Synchronous Acute Appendicitis and Cholecystitis in a Paediatric Patient with Salmonella Enteritis.

We present the case of a 13-year-old male who presented with right upper quadrant pain and diarrhoea after recently travelling from Bali, Indonesia. He had a normal white cell count of 8x10^9/L and elevated c-reactive protein (CRP) of 205 mg/L with normal liver function tests. Originally thought to be appendicitis, given the rarity of cholecystitis in a child, he was commenced on broad-spectrum antibiotics and was taken to the operating theatre based on his clinical presentation.