Inguinal hernia in urological patients: the value of herniography.
The value of herniography was reviewed in 45 patients with a variety of urological symptoms (4 with flank pain, 20 with pain from the funicle or scrotum, 11 with symptoms simulating prostatitis and 10 with ill-defined symptoms from the small pelvis). In no patient was a groin hernia palpable at physical examination. However, herniography revealed an inguinal hernia in 6 patients who underwent herniorrhaphy, whereafter 5 became asymptomatic. We recommend herniography in patients with long-standing obscure groin pain to reveal the presence of a nonpalpable inguinal hernia.
Ekberg
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Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Urology, University of Lund, Malmö General Hospital, Sweden.
Abrahamsson
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Kesek
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D010173:Palpation; D010808:Physical Examination; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000209:etiology*