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Computed tomographic diagnosis of incarcerated Meckel's diverticulum in a patient with bilateral spigelian hernia
Abdel-Rauf Zeina1, Ahmad Mahamid, Nasser Sakran
1Department of Radiology, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, P.O.B. 169, Hadera, 38100, Israel. raufzeina3@hotmail.com
Introduction:
Spigelian hernia is an uncommon abdominal wall hernia occurring through the linea semilunaris located near the lateral border of the rectus abdominis muscle.
Case Report:
We report an extremely rare case of incarcerated Meckel's diverticulum within a spigelian hernia diagnosed by multidetector computed tomography.
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