The Importance of Femoral Hernia in Children.
- Author:
Seok Joo HAN
1
;
Bong Soo CHOI
;
Airi HAN
;
Jung Tak OH
;
Seung Hoon CHOI
;
Eui Ho HWANG
Author Information
1. Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Femoral Hernia;
Children
- MeSH:
Child*;
Diagnostic Errors;
Groin;
Hernia, Femoral*;
Hernia, Inguinal;
Herniorrhaphy;
Humans;
Recurrence
- From:Journal of the Korean Association of Pediatric Surgeons
2000;6(2):124-127
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Femoral hernias are very uncommon in children and very easily misdiagnosed. During a period of three years, three children of femoral hernia were treated by one pediatric surgeon at Severance Hospital. Only one case was diagnosed correctly before surgery; the other two were thought to be either an indirect inguinal hernia or groin mass. Only one patient had curative hernioplasty (McVay hernioplasty) at the first operation; the other two did not have curative hernioplasty at the first operation. Femoral hernia in childhood is a challenging clinical problem because of its rarity and similar clinical presentation as indirect inguinal hernia. The frequency with which an incidental indirect inguinal hernia sac or patent processus vaginalis can be found at surgery can perpetuate a misdiagnosis. The absence of an expected indirect inguinal hernia sac or an apparent recurrence of an indirect inguinal hernia should lead to consideration of possible femoral hernia.
