title: Eviscerated urinary bladder via ruptured umbilical hernia: a rare occurrence.
abstract: Umbilical hernia is a common problem encountered in children. Rupture and evisceration are very rare phenomena, and the usual content that is eviscerated is the bowel. We present an infant who had a ruptured umbilical hernia with eviscerated urinary bladder dome. As this is the first case of its kind, it is being reported with a brief review of literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P. 221005, India. dranand27@rediffmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pandey
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Gangopadhyay
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Upadhyaya
mesh_terms: D006554:Hernia, Umbilical / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000601:surgery*