title: [Femoral hernia in childhood: a rare entity].
abstract: The Authors present 4 cases of femoral hernia treated in their pediatric surgery department during the last 11 years. Childhood femoral hernia is rare and often missed clinically because of difficulty in eliciting their clinical signs. During an operation for inguinal hernia it is essential to think of femoral hernia when a non obliterated processus vaginalis is not found.
authors.affiliation: II Divisione di Chirurgia Pediatrica, U.O. di Urologia, Azienda Ospedaliera Santobono di Napoli, Italia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fonzone Caccese
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Caccioppoli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aliotta
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Angelone
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bianco
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bolchini
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Parente
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006550:Hernia, Femoral / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D008297:Male