External abdominal hernias

ABSTRACT

To document our experience of external abdominal hernias at Rahim Yar Khan Design: A descriptive study. Place and Duration This study was conducted in Surgical Unit-II of Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan from May, 2002 to August, 2002. Patients And All patients admitted with the diagnosis of external abdominal hernia were registered for the study. History, Clinical presentation and relevant investigation were recorded. Commonest type of external abdominal hernia was the inguinal hernia [65%]. Second commonest was paraumbilical hernia [16%]. Third in series was incisional hernia [8%]. Remaining varieties, in descending order were umbilical [5%], ventral [3%], epigastric [2%] and fatty hernia of linea alba [1016]. Most of the findings were similar to those found in other parts of the country except that in our study no adult male suffered from ventral, epigastric or umbilical hernia. Complications were very low and no case of femoral hernia was seen