Femoral hernia in childhood: a rare entity
Fonzone Caccese, A.; Caccioppoli, U.; Aliotta, A.; Angelone, S.; Bianco, C.; Bolchini, P.; Parente, C.
La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 21(3): 145-148
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-5387 PMID: 10687165 Document Number: 507495
The Authors present 4 cases of femoral hernia treated in their pediatric surgery department during the last 11 years. Childhood femoral hernia is rare and often missed clinically because of difficulty in eliciting their clinical signs. During an operation for inguinal hernia it is essential to think of femoral hernia when a non obliterated processus vaginalis is not found.