Abstract

LUENGAS, JUAN PABLO; SACRISTAN R., PAOLA ANDREA; SAENZ REY, KATHERINE  and  SANABRIA ESGUERRA, ISABELLA. ESTRANGULADO LITTRE HERNIA. A CASE REPORT. rev.fac.med [online]. 2016, vol.24, n.2, pp.81-87. ISSN 0121-5256.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rmed.2644.

Littre's hernia is a disease of unknown incidence, it's clinical suspicion is infrequent given the lack of specificity of the symptoms, therefore it's diagnosis is made intrasurgicaly. We report the case of a patient that consulted due to acute abdominal pain, irreducible and painful mass in the right inguinal region, who since admission was suspected of having a strangulated hernia. After an emergency surgery the intraoperative finding of perforated Littre hernia was performed. The patient was discharged on the sixth postoperative day in good general conditions.

Keywords : Hernia; Littre; Meckel's diverticulum; Surgery.

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