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01-06-2011 | Images in Surgery
A Rare Presentation of Mass Abdomen
Published in: Indian Journal of Surgery | Issue 3/2011
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An elderly male who had undergone inguinal hernia surgery eight years back presented with an intra-abdominal mass. Clinically and radiologically it was diagnosed as mesenteric cyst. Laparotomy revealed a thick walled cyst embedded in the omentum, containing brownish necrotic material and few ‘linen thread knots’. On the basis of the latter finding the mass was thought to be a walled off hematoma, a complication of previous hernia surgery. Such a complication of inguinal surgery has not been reported earlier.