Incarcerated lumbar hernia: a rare presentation
D Light1, B Gopinath, A Banerjee
1Department of General Surgery, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust, North Tees Hospital, Stockton-on-Tees, UK. duncan.light@nth.nhs.uk
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
|April 24, 2010
Abstract:
This case illustrates the diagnostic uncertainty seen in lumbar herniation as a rare cause of large bowel obstruction.
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