Small bowel obstruction due to an incarcerated femoral hernia
Diagnosis certain
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Intestinal obstruction due to an abdominal hernia is the second commonest cause of small bowel obstruction after adhesions and most are secondary to incarceration and strangulation. It is rare in colonic a rare cause of colonic obstruction.
Key findings on CT are dilated proximal loops distal to the hernia with handles with á a ''knuckle'' of bowel caught in the hernial neckhernia neck.
-<p>Intestinal obstruction due to an abdominal hernia is the second commonest cause of <a title="Small bowel obstruction" href="/articles/small-bowel-obstruction">small bowel obstruction</a> after adhesions and most are secondary to incarceration and strangulation. It is rare in colonic obstruction.</p><p>Key findings on CT are dilated proximal loops distal to the <a title="Abdominal hernia" href="/articles/abdominal-hernia">hernia</a> with handles with á ''knuckle'' of bowel caught in the hernial neck.</p>- +<p>Intestinal obstruction due to an abdominal hernia is the second commonest cause of <a href="/articles/small-bowel-obstruction">small bowel obstruction</a> after adhesions and most are secondary to incarceration and strangulation. It is a rare cause of colonic obstruction.</p><p>Key findings on CT are dilated proximal loops distal to the <a href="/articles/abdominal-hernia">hernia</a> with a ''knuckle'' of bowel caught in the hernia neck.</p>
Tags changed:
- femoral hernia
- hernia
- small bowel obstruction
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Image CT (C+ portal venous phase) ( update )
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Axial.
Image CT (C+ portal venous phase) ( update )
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