An incarcerated appendix and the ileocecum within a left inguinal hernia in an infant

Yoneyama, Fumiya; Tanaka, Hideaki; Ono, Kentaro; Sasaki, Takato; Jimbo, Takahiro; Gotoh, Chikashi; Uesugi, Toru; Urita, Yasuhisa; Shinkai, Toko; Takayasu, Hajime; Imoto, Natsuki; Masumoto, Kouji

doi:10.1186/s40792-015-0064-y

Surgical Case Reports

Table 1 The demographics and clinical outcomes of pediatric patients with left-sided Amyand’s hernia, including our case

From: An incarcerated appendix and the ileocecum within a left inguinal hernia in an infant

Pt. No	Author	Year	Gender	Age	Presenting symptoms	Contents of hernia	Presence of appendicitis	Underlying condition	Surgical treatments	Outcome
1	Gupta S [5]	2005	Male	9 months	Bilious vomiting, irreducible inguinal swelling	Appendix, cecum	(−)	Mobile cecum	Herniorrhaphy	Uneventful
2	Gupta N [6]	2007	Male	11 months	Bilious vomiting, irreducible inguinal swelling	Appendix, cecum, terminal ileum	(+)	Mobile cecum	Herniorrhaphy, appendectomy	Uneventful
3	Kaymakci A [7]	2009	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	(+) in one of three	Mobile cecum	Herniorrhaphy in three, appendectomy in one with appendicitis	Uneventful
4	Kaymakci A [7]	2009	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		Mobile cecum		Uneventful
5	Kaymakci A [7]	2009	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		Mobile cecum		Uneventful
6	Cankorkmaz L [8]	2010	Male	4 months	Vomiting, irreducible inguinal swelling	Appendix	(−)	Mobile cecum in the one, not known in the other	Herniorrhaphy, appendectomy	Uneventful
7	Cankorkmaz L [8]	2010	Male	2 months	Irreducible inguinal swelling	Appendix	(−)	Mobile cecum in the one, not known in the other	Herniorrhaphy, appendectomy	Uneventful
8	Khan R [9]	2011	Male	10 months	Scrotum swelling	Appendix, part of the cecum	(+)	Mobile cecum	Herniorrhaphy, appendectomy, another midline incision to explore malrotation, cecopexy	Uneventful except for surgical site infection
9	Singh K [10]	2011	Male	18 months	Bilious vomiting, fever, irreducible inguinal swelling	Appendix, cecum (perforation)	(−)	Mobile cecum	Herniorrhaphy, closure of cecal perforation	Uneventful
10	Singh K [10]	2011	Male	18 months	Scrotum swelling	Appendix, cecum, terminal ileum (serosal tear)	(−)	Not known	Herniorrhaphy, repair of serosal tear	Uneventful
11	Pun A [11]	2013	Male	18 months	Vomiting, irreducible inguinal swelling	Appendix, sigmoid colon	(+)	Mobile cecum	Herniorrhaphy, appendectomy	Uneventful
12	Al-Mayoof [12]	2014	Male	4 months	Vomiting, irreducible inguino-scrotal swelling	Appendix, cecum	(−)	Situs inversus	Herniorrhaphy, appendectomy	Uneventful
13	Al-Mayoof [12]	2014	Male	10 months	Bilious vomiting, fever, irreducible inguinal swelling	Appendix, cecum	(−)	Mobile cecum	Herniorrhaphy, appendectomy	Uneventful
14	Our case	2014	Male	8 months	Bilious vomiting, irreducible inguinal swelling	Appendix, cecum (serosal tears), terminal ileum	(−)	Mobile cecum	Herniorrhaphy, repair of serosal tears	Uneventful

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