Abstract

HURTADO DAVILA, José Francisco  and  HURTADO VIERA, Raquel. Hernary Appendicitis: Presentation of two cases. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2007, vol.6, n.2. ISSN 1729-519X.

Untreated inguinal hernia can have multiples complications, like, strangulations, incarceration and slipping added to some. We revised the clinical history of two patients with herniary appendicitis, operated in our surgery department; an infrequent complication we have never seen in our practice period, although it appears in the literature we revised it before. We present both clinical cases, with similar forms of presentation in both (pain in the inguino-scrotal region, with an irreducible tumour, with inflammatory signs). The findings during the operation by the surgeons (the cecal appendix swollen in the hernary sac) what was done by them (appendicectomy and herniorrafy with toilette), and the evolution of both patients in our clinical and surgical teaching Joaquín Albarrán Dominguez Hospital in the Havana City, 2004 .Our objectives is to establish the importance of having in mind the entity by surgeons. We concluded that in case of an irreducible tumour in the right inguinal region with inflammatory signs, it has to be thought of to act accordingly. In our patients the appendicectomy and the repair of the hernia was successful.

Keywords : Hernary Appendicitis; Appendicitis with the appendix located in the herniary sac.