Sliding Inguinal Hernia Bladder
Sliding hernias are supposed to be more anatomically challenging for a surgeon than an uncomplicated non sliding inguinal hernias.
Sliding inguinal hernia bladder. Bladder herniation into the scrotum has also been called scrotal cystocele. A sliding hernia is a type of hernia in which the contents one portion of a body cavity extends with the hernia sac into another body cavity. 1 since that time despite several reports and advances in abdominal imaging ibh remains a constant trap for the surgeon before the diagnosis during herniorrhaphy and even in the postoperative period. However herniations through ischiorectal obturator and abdominal wall openings have also been described.
It occurs when the urinary bladder or ureter herniates into the inguinal canal scrotal sac or femoral canal herniations through ischiorectal obturator or abdominal wall openings have also been described. Most of these cases are insignificant and diagnosed intra. There are single reports of preoperative diagnosis of sliding hernia containing urinary bladder based on a plain abdominal x ray showing urinary bladder calculi within the groin. Herniation of the urinary bladder involve the inguinal and femoral canals with the latter more frequent in women and a predilection for the right side has been reported.
If surgeon does not open a hernia sac a small sliding hernia can be easily overlooked. Failure to identify the visceral part of the sliding hernia correctly can result in the injury of the bladder or bowel during surgery. In this way a sliding inguinal hernia of the urinary bladder involves the urinary bladder herniating with the inguinal hernia sac itself. However if there are.
Sliding inguinal hernias commonly involve the colon or urinary bladder. Inguinal hernia repair is often an outpatient procedure. A catheter is a tube that drains urine from the bladder. Herniation of the urinary bladder is a relatively uncommon but not a rare condition.
Although inguinal hernias are common herniation of the urinary bladder into the hernia sac is rare being observed in 0 5 5 of inguinal hernia cases 1 2 bladder herniation occurs predominantly in obese males aged 50 years 2 and in right sided hernias 3 until 2018 approximately 120 cases have been described 1 10 the majority of patients with bladder hernias. Actually the bladder is involved in 1 to 4 of inguinal hernias in the. 8 usually diagnosis is made after a hernia sac is opened. A sliding inguinal hernia is a protrusion of a retroperitoneal organ through an abdominal wall defect.
Indirect inguinal hernia of the urinary bladder through a persistent. Described first by levine in 1951 as scrotal cystocele inguinal bladder hernia ibh is a rare clinical condition. Most sliding inguinal hernias are indirect inguinal hernias but occasionally direct sliding hernias can also develop.