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Complete colonic obstruction caused by a sigmoid colon cancer incarcerated in an inguinal hernia sac
1Colon and Rectal Surgery Section, General Surgery Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Southern Medical Journal
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
An 85-year-old man with a clinical and x-ray picture consistent with a large bowel obstruction had a large left inguinal hernia with an incarcerated loop of sigmoid colon containing a small annular constricting colon carcinoma. Colonic obstruction due to inguinal hernia alone is so rare that a thorough evaluation should be done preoperatively in any patient believed to have colonic obstruction due to inguinal hernia.