title: Epiploic appendicitis in inguinal hernia sac presenting an inguinal mass.
abstract: Inguinal hernia sometimes surprises surgeons with its unexpected content. Epiploic appendagitis in hernia sac is a very rare entity. We report a 60-year-old male patient with a painless inguinal mass. Surgical exploration showed a 4-cm mass beneath the external oblique aponeurosis that consisted of a hernia sac containing an inflamed and remarkably swollen appendix epiploica of the sigmoid colon secondary to torsion. The patient recovered after the resection of epiploic appendix and a tension-free hernia repair.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Ataturk Teaching and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. hakankulacoglu@superonline.com
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kulacoglu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tumer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aktimur
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kusdemir
mesh_terms: D012809:Colon, Sigmoid / Q000473:pathology*; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged