Asymptomatic Meconium Peritonitis Presenting as Inguinal Hernia in a Female Neonate

Inguinal hernias in girls are often irreducible when they contain ovaries. Rarely the hernial sacs may have unusual contents like vermiform appendix, uterus and urinary bladder. We report a case of a female infant who presented with bilateral irreducible inguinal hernias presumed to be due to ovarie...

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Main Authors: Sivasankar Jayakumar (Author), Laila Hatsell (Author), Nitin Patwardhan (Author)
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Published: EL-Med-Pub, 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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