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Choice of imaging modality in the diagnosis of sciatic hernia
Peter L Z Labib1, Sohail N Malik2
1Department of Surgery, Weston General Hospital, Somerset, UK peter.labib@nhs.net.
Abstract:
Sciatic hernias are one of the rarest types of hernia and often pose diagnostic difficulty to clinicians. We report a case of an 80-year-old lady with a sciatic hernia who had a falsely negative computed tomography (CT) but was found to have a colonic hernia on ultrasonography. The authors recommend that for patients in which there is a high degree of clinical suspicion for a sciatic hernia and a negative CT, ultrasonography may be considered as a useful imaging modality to confirm the diagnosis.
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