sliding hernia

The term also frequently refers to sliding hernias of the stomach.

Surgery may also be needed when sliding hernias bleed or become large, strangulated, or inflamed.

In 1912 Moschcowitzl proposed that rectal prolapse was a sliding hernia through a pelvic fascial defect.

While sliding hernias are primarily associated with gastroesophageal acid reflux, rolling hernias can strangulate a portion of the stomach above the diaphragm.

Sliding hernia: occurs when an organ drags along part of the peritoneum, or, in other words, the organ is part of the hernia sac.