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ES Journal of Case Reports

ISSN: 2767-6560

Abdominal Eventration of an Epiploic Appendix: An Unusual Presentation

  • Case report

  • Gallego Rodríguez P*, Guillen-Astete C, Vaello Jodra V, Campos Ferrer M.C, Romio de las Heras E and Penedo Alonso R
  • Emergency department, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Spain
  • *Corresponding author: P Gallego, MD, Emergency department, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Ctra Colmenar Viejo Km 9,1 28034 Madrid, Spain
  • Received: Jan 27, 2020;Accepted: Feb 10, 2020; Published: Feb 11, 2020

Keywords

Epiploic appendix; eventration

Clinical presentation

An 83-year-old woman, with no previous abdominal surgical history, presented to the emergency department of our hospital due to a mass of tissue that pierced the abdominal wall from the inside and protruded several centimetres outward. According to the patient, in the place of the exit of the abdominal contents, the previous days, thinning of the thickness of the skin and intestinal movements were noticed.

Citation: Rodríguez PG, Guillen-Astete C, Jodra V, Ferrer M C, de las HER and Alonso RP. Abdominal Eventration of an Epiploic Appendix: An Unusual Presentation. ES J Case Rep. 2020; 1(1): 1005.