Intestinal obstruction due to incarcerated Meckel’s diverticulum (Littre’s hernia)

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Hernández Fernández L.M Slocker de Arce A Díaz Pedrero R Soledad Aguado Henche

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Soledad Aguado Henche
School of medicine, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

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Meckel's diverticulum it is the most common malformation of the gastrointestinal tract. Femoral hernia is the second most common inguinal hernia, and is characterized by incarceration and strangulation. We present a case of 90-year-old woman wiht strangulation of Meckel’s diverticulum in a left-sided femoral hernia. The diverticulum was resected and hernia was repared wihtout complications. A Littre’s hernia is a complication of Meckel’s diverticulum and it is a result of its protrusion through a herniary orifice. Surgical resection is recommended for this type of hernia due to possible vascular complications, intestinal obstruction and herniation. Although usually Littre’s hernia appears in the early ages of the life, we must not ignore their possible appearance in people who are aged. We present in this case a Littre’s hernia in a very old woman.

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Publication history

Received: Fri 05, Jul 2019
Accepted: Fri 26, Jul 2019
Published: Tue 06, Aug 2019

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© 2023 Soledad Aguado Henche. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.04.04