A unique paediatric surgical case: case report

Abstract

We present a surgical case of femoral hernia in an infant girl, aged three months. We consider this case of particular interest for two main reasons: the differential diagnosis of a groin mass in an infant, which included femoral hernia actually confirmed during open surgery performed in an emergency situation. The second interesting finding is that within the hernia sac we did not find the bowel nor the bladder, but with our surprise the uterus and a fallopian tube were contained in the hernia sac. Lastly, we comment on the importance to document similar cases by intra-operatory imaging. In our case the camera facility was not available in the theatre and we could not document this interesting case by imaging.