An unusual femoral hernia.
An elderly woman presented with a lump in the right groin, clinically suggestive of a femoral hernia, but surgical exploration revealed a cystic mass of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. Post mortem examination showed it to be a metastic deposit of carcinoma of the gall-bladder. Presentation of gall-bladder carcinoma as a femoral hernia has not been previously reported.
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Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Wales, Cardiff.
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D006119:Groin; D006550:Hernia, Femoral / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans