Rare Contents of an Internal Hernia through a Defect of the Broad Ligament of the Uterus

Table 1

Review of recent studies reporting broad ligament hernia.

	Authors [ref. no.]	History of surgery/parturitions	Approach	Procedure for orifice	Contents
1	Khetan et al. [7]	None	L	Closure	Small bowel
2	Takeyama et al. [8]	Two parturitions	SILS	Closure	Sigmoid colon
3	Toolabi et al. [9]	None	L	Closure	Small bowel
4	Park et al. [10]	Uterine myomectomy	L	Closure	Small bowel
5	Diémé et al. [11]	Three parturitions	L	Closure	Small bowel
6	Rajasekharan et al. [12]	Cesarean section	O	Closure	Small bowel
7	Zemour et al. [13]	Small bowel surgery	O	Closure	Small bowel
8	Fernandes et al. [14]	None	O	Closure	Small bowel
9	Fernandes et al.	None	O	Closure	Small bowel
10	Fernandes et al.	None	O	Closure	Small bowel
11	Reyes et al. [15]	Sleeve gastrectomy	O	Opening and salpingectomy	Small bowel
12	Koizumi et al. [16]	None	L	Closure	Small bowel
13	Sugishita et al. [17]	Right ovarian cyst surgery	L	Closure	Small bowel
14	Rohatgi and Joshi [3]	10^th-day postcesarean section	L	Opening and salpingectomy	Small bowel and gangrenous fallopian tube (spontaneously reduced)
15	Hashimoto et al. [6]	Broad ligament hernia	O	Closure	Small bowel
16	Harvitkar et al. [18]	Cesarean section	L	Closure	Small bowel (spontaneously reduced)
17	Kaur et al. [19]	Cesarean section	O	Closure	Small bowel
18	Tirado-Peraza et al. [20]	None	O	Closure	Small bowel

Abbreviations: O: open; L: laparoscopic surgery; SILS: single-incision laparoscopic surgery.