術後早期退院し得た超高齢者大腿ヘルニア嵌頓の一例(症例報告)
概要
A 97-year-old woman presented with a mass in her right inguinal region in August 2018. She was diagnosed with femoral hernia and was followed up in our hospital. The patient experienced stomach aches from early-December 2018, and subsequently, visited our hospital in mid-December. Abdominal computed tomography revealed incarceration of the small intestine in the right inguinal region, and the patient was diagnosed with femoral hernia incarceration. Given that the patient was an elderly individual, first, emergency manual reduction was performed, and on the next day, the femoral hernia was radiologically operated.
The hernial sac was sticking to inflammation at the hernia gate whose diameter was approximately 1 cm. The patient was discharged on the third day without any postoperative complications. We report the case of an incarcerated femoral hernia in a super-elderly patient who was discharged immediately after operation.