We hope you'll never need to know this—but in case symptoms of a hernia ever creep up, a Cleveland Clinic surgeon reveals ...

THE injection treatment of hernia is now so little practiced in ... This report deals with a patient in whom a complete obstruction of the small intestine was attributable to the inflammatory ...

The patient was diagnosed with a reduction en masse of an inguinal hernia and secondary mechanical small bowel obstruction. An emergency operation was performed under general anesthesia.

In adults with an umbilical hernia, surgery is typically recommended in order to avoid complications such as intestinal obstruction. Small bowel obstruction is a partial or complete block of your ...

Older age, longer duration of hernia, and longer duration of irreducibility are thought to be risk factors for acute complications such as Strangulation and Intestinal obstruction. About 5% of ...