Gupta Anupam K, Vazquez Oscar A, El Haddi James, Dedwylder Michael, Yeguez Jose F
Surgery, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA.
Cureus. 2020 Apr 10;12(4):e7622. doi: 10.7759/cureus.7622.
Amyand's hernia is an unusual condition characterized by the presence of a normal or inflamed appendix located within an inguinal hernia. We present a rare situation wherein a 56-year-old male patient presented with an incarcerated inflamed appendix in a right inguinal hernia. He was emergently taken to the operating room, with diagnostic laparoscopy changed to open, due to incarcerated cecum and terminal ileum. The incarcerated segment had to be resected with primary anastomosis. The inflamed and purulent contents were washed out, and the hernia defect was left unrepaired due to the presence of abscess in the inguinal canal.