A young man with concurrent acute appendicitis and incarcerated right indirect inguinal hernia

Abstract

Mohammad Farwana,1 Reem Farwana,2 Ikram Nasr3 1King's College London, London, 2University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 3Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UKWe read with great interest the expert opinion of Ditsatham et al1 on an extremely interesting case. Ditsatham describes a patient who presented with both appendicitis and an indirect inguinal hernia. There is very little known on the subject of concurrent appendicitis and hernia throughout the literature. There were some aspects to the history that stood out.View original paper by Ditsatham and colleagues.

Keywords

• inguinal hernia
• concurrent
• appendicitis
• collagen