femoral hernia

Femoral hernias are more common in adults than in children.

A femoral hernia appears as a bulge on the top of the thigh.

Femoral hernias are most common in women, especially those who are pregnant or obese.

It displays a cough impulse and may be mistaken for a femoral hernia.

It is also used in femoral hernia repairs.

This is the most common type of femoral hernia and is usually painless.

The incidence of strangulation in femoral hernias is high.

Several subtypes of femoral hernia have been described.

A femoral hernia has often been found to be the cause of unexplained small bowel obstruction.

However, because of the high incidence of complications, femoral hernias often need emergency surgery.

The lacunar ligament can be a site of entrapment for femoral hernias.

However, the term "incarcerated" seems to always imply that the femoral hernia is at least irreducible.

Femoral hernias, like most other hernias, usually need operative intervention.

Femoral hernias are a relatively uncommon type, accounting for only 3% of all hernias.

The term incarcerated femoral hernia is sometimes used, but may have different meanings to different authors and physicians.

Cough impulse is often absent and should not be relied on solely when making a diagnosis of femoral hernia.

Battle's operation, a surgical operation for femoral hernia.

This surgery involves operating for femoral hernia through the posterior wall of the inguinal canal.

This eponym may be used to describe the incarceration of the vermiform appendix within a femoral hernia.

Grigoryants designed the operative technique of closure of the femoral hernia defect.

Femoral hernia.

Seventy percent of pediatric cases of femoral hernias occur in infants under the age of one.

It is through this femoral ring, that the intestines can protrude to form femoral hernia.

Béclard's hernia: A femoral hernia through the opening of the saphenous vein.

For example: "Sometimes the hernia can get stuck in the canal and is called an irreducible or incarcerated femoral hernia."