Hérnia lombar encarcerada complicada com obstrução intestinal e perfuração de ceco

• Main Authors: Sinthia Maria Benigno Puttini, André Luiz Vianna, Luiz Guilherme Reys
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
• Series: Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
• Subjects: Hernia; Intestinal obstruction
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69912003000200012&lng=en&tlng=en

Lumbar hernia is defined as an abdominal passage through the posterior abdominal wall. Approximately 250 to 300 cases have been described in the literature, being quite infrequent. Untreated lumbar hernia may result in severe complications. The authors report a case of a 60 year old male patient presenting a large bowel obstruction and perfuration secundary to incarceration of descending colon within a lumbar hernia. This was diagnosed by clinical history and computed tomography. The patient was successfully treated surgically.