Clinics in diagnostic imaging (107)
Dundamadappa, S.K.; Tsou, I.Y.Y.; Goh, J.S.K.
Singapore Medical Journal 47(1): 89-94; quiz 95
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-5675 PMID: 16397730 Document Number: 595188
A 90-year-old woman was admitted for progressively increasing lower abdominal pain. There was no history of prior surgery, and physical examination was non-specific. The supine abdominal radiograph revealed an abnormal collection of air over the right obturator foramen. Computed tomography showed a right obturator hernia with incarcerated bowel in the hernial sac, and a right sciatic hernia containing the right ovary. The anatomy of obturator and inguinal hernias is reviewed, and the use of various imaging modalities in evaluation of abdominal hernias is discussed.