The anterolateral abdominal Hernias are a frequent reason for consultation; Spiegel's hernia is a rare spontaneous abdominal anterolateral hernia (0.12% of abdominal hernias) for patients between 40 and 70 years old, There are risk factors such as intra-abdominal hyperpressure secondary to morbid obesity, multiple pregnancies and chronic cough. The surgery is the standard treatment; whether by raphy or prosthetic mesch. We report the case of a 42 year old male admitted to the emergency room for an occlusion syndrome due to the strangulated spiegel hernia with caecal and appendicular contents.
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Ann Med Surg (Lond)
June 2021
Visceral Surgical Emergency Department, Universitary Hospital Center Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Morocco.
The anterolateral abdominal Hernias are a frequent reason for consultation; Spiegel's hernia is a rare spontaneous abdominal anterolateral hernia (0.12% of abdominal hernias) for patients between 40 and 70 years old, There are risk factors such as intra-abdominal hyperpressure secondary to morbid obesity, multiple pregnancies and chronic cough. The surgery is the standard treatment; whether by raphy or prosthetic mesch.
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May 2021
Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, 1-847 Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama 330-8503, Japan. Electronic address:
Introduction And Importance: The usefulness of laparoscopic surgery in the treatment of Spigelian hernias and the appropriate insufflation pressure remains unclear.
Case Presentation: Case 1 involved an 81-year-old woman presented with a right abdominal protrusion. CT scan demonstrated a defect in the abdominal wall at the lateral edge of the right rectus abdominis muscle.
BMJ Case Rep
January 2018
Gastroenterology Department, Hospital da Senhora da Oliveira, Guimarães, Portugal.
Rev Med Liege
September 2016
Service de Radiodiagnostic, CHR Citadelle, 4000 Liège, Belgique.
Spiegelian hernia is a rare anterior abdominal wall hernia, described in 1764 by a Hungarian surgeon. It often remains undiagnosed because of its unusual location on the semilunar line, laterally to the rectus muscle. CT presentation is specific.
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March 2017
Service de Radiologie et d'Imagerie Médicale de l'Hôpital Aristide Le Dantec, Dakar, Sénégal.
We report a case of a 86-year old woman with Spiegel hernia complicated by occlusion whose diagnosis was based on CT scan. She was examined in the Emergency Surgery Department for brutal onset of pain in the right iliac fossa associated with vomiting. On physical examination the patient was febrile (38.
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