Presentation
Vague abdominal pain. Concern over solid organ abscess.
Patient Data
Age: 75 years
Gender: Male
From the case:
Amyand hernia
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Info
The appendix is contained within a right-sided inguinal hernia.
Prostatomegaly.
Simple renal and hepatic cysts.
Case Discussion
An Amyand hernia describes a inguinal hernia containly the appendix, without any other intraperitoneal contents.
In this, as most cases, it is an incidental finding.
It is named after Claudius Amyand, a French surgeon who performed the first successful appendectomy in 1735, on an 11-year-old boy who presented with an inflamed, perforated appendix in his inguinal hernia sac.
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