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Roohollah Sobhani1, Samira Alsaeidi, Alireza Mahmoudabadi
1Department of General Surgery, 15 Khordad Hospital, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran.
Abstract:
The presence of primary or metastatic cancer within a hernia sac is uncommon, which occurs in fewer than 0.5% of all surgically excised sacs (1). This article demonstrates a case of a metastatic pancreatic cancer, one of which presented as an inguinal hernia with fever of unknown origin (FUO). A 44-year-old male presented with a history of FUO and a painful inguinal hernia. Inguinal canal exploration revealed a mass like lesion in the sac without any correlation to abdominopelvic viscera. Postoperative evaluations confirmed moderately differentiated metastatic adenocarcinoma from pancreatic origin.