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Broad ligament hernia successfully treated by laparoscopy: Case report and review of literature
Masatoshi Matsunami1, Hiroshi Kusanagi, Ken Hayashi
1Department of Surgery, Kameda Medical Center, Chiba, Japan.
We report a case of a 36-year-old woman with a history of caesarean section who presented with small bowel obstruction. Abdominal multi-detector CT showed discontinuity of the small bowel near the broad ligament on the left. We made a provisional diagnosis of an internal hernia through a defect in the broad ligament and performed laparoscopic exploration, which revealed a viable ileal loop incarcerated by the broad ligament. Multi-detector CT may be useful for diagnosing this type of defect preoperatively, whereby open surgery can be avoided.
We report a case of a 36-year-old woman with a history of caesarean section who presented with small bowel obstruction. Abdominal multi-detector CT showed discontinuity of the small bowel near the broad ligament on the left. We made a provisional diagnosis of an internal hernia through a defect in the broad ligament and performed laparoscopic exploration, which revealed a viable ileal loop incarcerated by the broad ligament. Multi-detector CT may be useful for diagnosing this type of defect preoperatively, whereby open surgery can be avoided.
