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Mahdi Bouassida, Selim Sassi, Hassen Touinsi, Helmi Kallel, Mohamed Mongi Mighri, Fathi Chebbi, Mechaal Ben Ali, Khaled Bouzeidi, Sadok Sassi. Internal supravesical hernia - a rare cause of intestinal obstruction: report of two cases. The Pan African Medical Journal. 2012;11:17 Key words: Supravesical hernia, intestinal obstruction, surgery, Tunisia Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/11/17/full Received: 08/11/2011 - Accepted: 11/01/2012 - Published: 26/01/2012 © Mahdi Bouassida et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Internal supravesical hernia - a rare cause of intestinal obstruction: report of two cases
Mahdi Bouassida1,&, Selim Sassi1, Hassen Touinsi1, Helmi Kallel1, Mohamed Mongi Mighri1, Fathi Chebbi1, Mechaal Ben Ali3, Khaled Bouzeidi2, Sadok Sassi1
1Department of surgery, Mohamed Thahar Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia, 2Department of radiology, Mohamed Thahar Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia, 3Department of reanimation, Mohamed Thahar Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia
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Mahdi Bouassida, Department of surgery, Mohamed Thahar Maamouri Hospital, 8000 Mrazga, Nabeul, Tunisia
Supravesical hernias develop at the supravesical fossa between the remnants of the urachus and the left or right umbilical artery. They are exceptional and are often the cause of intestinal obstruction. We report two cases of surgically proven internal supravesical hernias presenting with small bowel obstruction. Abdominal computed tomography showed, for our first case, the relation of the incarcerated intestine anterior to and compressing the urinary bladder. We believe that the preoperative diagnosis of supravesical hernia by abdominal computed tomography is possible, as shown in our first case.
