title: Obturator hernia of the fallopian tube.
abstract: Obturator hernia of the fallopian tube is extremely rare. Multidetector computed tomography of a 43-year-old nulliparous woman with sudden onset lower right abdominal pain showed a low-density mass in the right obturator canal suspected of being an obturator hernia of the uterine adnexa. She was diagnosed as having an incarcerated obturator hernia of the fallopian tube at operation and treated with prosthetic mesh. Obturator hernia of the fallopian tube is very rare, and all cases reported in the literature were localized on the right side, perhaps due to the lesser mobility of the left than the right fallopian tube.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Asahi General Hospital, Asahi, Chiba, Japan. tak.karasaki@gmail.com
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Karasaki
authors.forename: Tassei
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Nobutaka
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D005184:Fallopian Tube Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006553:Hernia, Obturator / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D061330:Multidetector Computed Tomography; D019736:Prostheses and Implants