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FEMORAL HERNIA - How To DIAGNOSE & TREAT/ Groin Swellings

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Femoral hernia - Groin swellings

  1. Dr.B.Selvaraj MS;MCh;FICS Professor of Surgery Melaka Manipal Medical college Melaka Malaysia 75150 GROIN SWELLINGS FEMORAL HERNIA

  2. Femoral Hernia- Overview  Causes of groin swellings  Classical Clinical Vignette of Femoral Hernia  Femoral Hernia in detail- one pathology in each episode  Mind map of Femoral Hernia  Algorithm to clinch the correct diagnosis  Tabular column of differential diagnosis depicting their characteristic features to differentiate them from Femoral Hernia

3. Causes of Groin swellings  Inguinal hernia- Indirect & direct  Femoral hernia  Undescended testis  Inguinal lymphadenitis  Lipoma of spermatic cord  Encysted hydrocele  Saphena varix  Femoral artery aneurysm  Psoas abscess  Femoral nerve neuroma

4. Classical Clinical Vignette  A 65-year-old obese woman presents to the emergency department with nausea and vomiting for the past day. The frequency of vomiting has increased despite the fact that she has not eaten for the past 12 hours.  For the last few months, she has noticed a painful “lump” in her left groin that would protrude upon straining, but would quickly disappear after lying down. She says that the lump appeared a few days ago and has not gone away even after lying down.  She has had no bowel movement and no flatus per rectum for the past 24 hours.

5. Classical Clinical Vignette  O/E: the patient has a low-grade fever (100.2 °F), blood pressure of 120/80 mmHg, and heart rate of 120/min. She appears ill and uncomfortable with dry mucous membranes.  Her abdomen is non-tender to palpation, but there is a 2 × 2 cm mass in the left groin, below and lateral to the pubic tubercle. Her abdomen is mildly distended. Bowel sounds are high-pitched- borborygmi+  The overlying skin is slightly erythematous and the mass is irreducible.  Laboratory studies are significant for white blood count of 14.7 × 10 3 (normal 4.1−10.9 × 10 3 /μL). Femoral Hernia

6. Femoral Hernia  Herniation of intra-abdominal contents through the femoral canal is called Femoral hernia.  It is the third most common type of hernia after inguinal and incisional hernias.  Women are more affected than men (2:1) and right side is more affected than the left. It is bilateral in 15 to 20 percent cases.  The sac can not pass down into the thigh as the sup fascia of the abdomen (fascia of Scarpa) is attached to the fascia lata of thigh at the lower border of the fossa ovalis.  The shape of the sac thus becomes retort-shaped.

7. Femoral Hernia- Etiology  Femoral hernia is almost always acquired in nature  Pregnancy: Repeated pregnancy causes increased abdominal pressure which is probably an initiating factor. The maximum incidence is around 30 – 40 yrs.  Wide femoral canal: This is due to narrow insertion of iliopubic tract into the pectineal line of the pubis and may be responsible for a few cases of femoral hernia.

8. Femoral Hernia- Clinical Features  Presents as a swelling in the groin below and lateral to the pubic tubercle (Inguinal hernia is above and medial to the pubic tubercle).  Swelling, impulse on coughing, reducibility, gurgling sound during reduction, dragging pain, are the usual features.  When obstruction and strangulation occurs which is more common, presents with features of intestinal obstruction—painful, tender, inflamed, irreducible swelling without any impulse.  Gaur’s sign: In femoral hernia, distension of superficial epigastric and/or circumflex iliac veins occurs due to the pressure by the hernial sac.

9. Femoral Hernia- Clinical Features

10. Femoral Hernia- Types  Laugier’s hernia—through lacunar ligament  Serofini’s hernia—occurs behind femoral vessels  Teale’s hernia—in front femoral vessels  Callison-Cloquet hernia—through pectineal fascia  Hesselbach’s hernia—occurs lateral to femoral artery  Narath’s hernia—occurs behind femoral artery, in congenital dislocation of hip

11. Femoral Hernia Vs Inguinal Hernia

12. Femoral Hernia- Treatment  Lockwood-low operation:Here inguinal ligament is sutured to Cooper’s ligament. Fundus of sac is dissected by direct vision and repair is done from below.  Lotheissen’s operation: It is through inguinal canal approach. Transversalis fascia is opened and neck of the sac is identified in the femoral ring. Sac is dissected from above, neck is ligated and repair is done. After herniotomy, conjoined tendon is sutured to iliopectineal ligament by interrupted sutures (2 or 3), using nonabsorbable monofilament sutures.

13. Femoral Hernia- Treatment  Mc’Evedy-high operation: A incision is made over the femoral canal extending vertically above the inguinal ligament. Sac is dissected from below, neck from above and repair is done from above. It is done in strangulated femoral hernia.  AK Henry’s approach:Repair of bilateral femoral hernia through lower abdominal incision.  Laparoscopic mesh repair:TEP/TAPP. A-Inguinal incision (Lotheissen’s approach) B-Low incision (Lockwood approach) C-Vertical incision (Mcevedy’s approach)

14. Femoral Hernia-Complications Of Surgery  Seroma/ Hematoma  Urinary retention  Wound infection  Recurrence  Bleeding from aberrant obturator artery  Chronic neuralgic pain due to nerve injury or entrapment

15. Femoral Hernia- Mindmap

16. Algorithm for Groin Swellings

17. D/D for Groin Swellings Compare & Contrast; Vertical reading




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