title: Thigh neuralgia as a symptom of obturator hernia.
abstract: A material of 8 patients with obturator hernias is presented. In 7 of the patients a neuralgic pain in the thigh was the main symptom and a hyperesthesia in the cutaneous segment of the obturator nerve was also common. A recognition and an early operation of this condition is important, since the mortality is high when an intestinal obstruction has complicated the disease.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006547:Hernia / Q000150:complications*; D006553:Hernia, Obturator / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D006941:Hyperesthesia / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology*; D009776:Obturator Nerve / Q000601:surgery; D013848:Thigh / Q000294:innervation*