title: Epigastirc hernia presenting as a giant abdominal interparietal hernia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Epigastric hernia is a rare form of ventral abdominal hernia. When neglected it can attain an impressive size causing it un-aesthetic effect in addition to diagnostic difficulties.
  
  
  METHODS
  Presented is a 60-year-old female farmer with a 10-year history of a voluminous mass in the anterior abdominal wall.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Surgery revealed an epigastric hernia presenting as an interparietal hernia. The hernia was an omentocele with a grossly distended hernia sac filled with about 2.5 l of serous fluid. No similar case has been found in the medical literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Epigastric hernia can attain voluminous dimensions and present as a non-inguinal interparietal hernia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Maurice E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Asuquo
authors.forename: Victor I C
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Nwagbara
authors.forename: Michael O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Ifere
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