Samih Abed Odhaib
Faiha Specialized Diabetes, Endocrine, and Metabolism Center,Iraq
Title: Preoperative diagnosis of a rare small bowel obstruction : Right paraduodenal herina: Case Report
Biography
Biography: Samih Abed Odhaib
Abstract
The right paraduodenal hernia is an internal hernia of a rare type extends through the fossa of Waldeyer, caused by a congenital gut malrotation defect or trauma, infectious disease, iatrogenic trauma or mesenteric defect. The right is far less common than the left paraduodenal hernia (1:3), and three times more male predominant. A 67-year-old female with acute small bowel obstruction, with a diagnosis of right paraduodenal hernia done, preoperatively by imaging studies and confirmed during laparotomy with a good postoperative course and total resolution of obstructive symptoms. This will be the 168th case reported since Neubauer had published his first case in 1756.