Noboru Hasegawa, Hiroshi Takeyama, Yozo Suzuki, Shingo Noura, Kazuki Odagiri, Yoshitomo Yanagimoto, Masafumi Yamashita, Junzo Shimizu, Tomono Kawase, Hiroshi Imamura, Takashi Iwazawa, Naohiro Tomita, Keizo Dono
BACKGROUND: Paraduodenal hernia is a rare internal hernia which accounts for only 1% of all intestinal hernias. There have been limited reported cases of paraduodenal hernia treated by laparoscopic surgery. We report a case of left paraduodenal hernia that was successfully treated by single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS). CASE PRESENTATION: A 17-year-old woman presented with left upper abdominal pain. An abdominal enhanced multi-detector computed tomography demonstrated encapsulated cluster of small bowel loops in the left upper quadrant which passed through the dorsal side of the inferior mesenteric vein, and showed that blood flow of the prolapsed small bowel was preserved...
September 21, 2021: Surgical Case Reports