[Differential diagnosis of incarcerated inguinal hernia in an infant: appendicitis in the hernial sac].

The article reports on the case of a 10-week-old male infant with a perforated appendix localised in the hernial sac of a right-sided inguinal hernia. The simultaneous occurrence of an acute appendicitis in infancy with the atypical localisation in the hernial sac presenting as an incarcerated hernia is a rare combination.