title: Choice of imaging modality in the diagnosis of sciatic hernia.
abstract: Sciatic hernias are one of the rarest types of hernia and often pose diagnostic difficulty to clinicians. We report a case of an 80-year-old lady with a sciatic hernia who had a falsely negative computed tomography (CT) but was found to have a colonic hernia on ultrasonography. The authors recommend that for patients in which there is a high degree of clinical suspicion for a sciatic hernia and a negative CT, ultrasonography may be considered as a useful imaging modality to confirm the diagnosis.
authors: Department of Surgery, Weston General Hospital, Somerset, UK peter.labib@nhs.net.
authors: Peter L Z
authors: PL
authors: Labib
authors: Department of Surgery, Weston General Hospital, Somerset, UK.
authors: Sohail N
authors: SN
authors: Malik