Asymptomatic Meconium Peritonitis Presenting as Inguinal Hernia in a Female Neonate

Inguinal hernias in girls are often irreducible when they contain ovaries. Rarely the hernial sacs may have unusual contents like vermiform appendix, uterus and urinary bladder. We report a case of a female infant who presented with bilateral irreducible inguinal hernias presumed to be due to ovarie...

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Main Authors: Jayakumar, Sivasankar, Hatsell, Laila, Patwardhan, Nitin
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: EL-MED-Pub 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420300/