Case Report
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] | 10th-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 |
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Abbreviations: O: open; L: laparoscopic surgery; SILS: single-incision laparoscopic surgery.
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