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Query: UMLS:C0019270 (
hernia
)
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document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Incarceration of inguinal hernia in children is not a very rare occurrence. The incidence of incarceration of
hernia
is about 12-17% in children below 10 years of age and two-thirds of incarcerations occur during the first year of life.
Sigmoid colon
as a content of childhood
hernia
is a very rare occurrence. We report a case of child with incarceration of inguinal hernia caused by impaction of feces in a loop of sigmoid colon. To the best of my knowledge this will be the first case report of such a finding in children.
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PMID:Impaction of feces in a loop of sigmoid colon: a rare cause of incarceration of inguinal hernia in children. 1905 40
