title: Prevascular femoral hernia and its relation with inferior epigastric vessels: a rare presentation of the femoral hernia sac.
abstract: A 61-year-old man presented to the emergency department, with a 2-week history of a painful lump on his right groin. A diagnosis of an irreducible right femoral hernia was made. As such, an urgent operation was carried out on the same day, and the patient was found to have a rare prevascular femoral hernia in which the sac was lying over the femoral vessels and split by the inferior epigastric vessels into 2 components resembling 2 trouser limbs. The hernia sac presented in a different and challenging way that necessitated meticulous dissection and full orientation of the anatomy of the femoral triangle. Complete dissection and control of the inferior epigastric vessels, and complete reduction of the sac followed by repair with a prosthetic mesh plug were performed successfully. The patient was discharged home the next day.
authors.affiliation: Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital, Margate, Kent, UK.|Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boshnaq
authors.affiliation: Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital, Margate, Kent, UK.
authors.forename: Yih Chyn
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Phan
authors.affiliation: Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital, Margate, Kent, UK.
authors.forename: Mansoor
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akhtar
authors.affiliation: Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital, Margate, Kent, UK.
authors.forename: Ayman
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hamade
mesh_terms: D004210:Dissection / Q000379:methods*; D019074:Epigastric Arteries / Q000601:surgery*; D005269:Femur / Q000098:blood supply; D006550:Hernia, Femoral / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D059685:Herniorrhaphy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged