Sliding ovary inside a hernia sac; a true emergency
We report two cases of female infants aged 5 and 6 months with strangulated twisted infracted ovaries inside hernial sacs requiring oophorectomy. Both presented with tender left sided groin swelling with skin erythema. One of presented a day prior to her scheduled admission and the other had her acu...
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2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | We report two cases of female infants aged 5 and 6 months with strangulated twisted infracted ovaries inside hernial sacs requiring oophorectomy. Both presented with tender left sided groin swelling with skin erythema. One of presented a day prior to her scheduled admission and the other had her acute symptoms as her first presentation. This risk warrants treating the asymptomatic irreducible ovary as a true emergency. |
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| Item Description: | 2213-5766 10.1016/j.epsc.2014.10.001 |