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Lumbar hernia: a rare cause of large bowel obstruction
I G Hide, E E Pike, R Uberoi
Department of
Clinical Radiology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
NE9 6SX, UK
Correspondence to: Dr IG Hide, Department of Radiology, South Cleveland Hospital, Middlesborough TS4 3BW, UK
Accepted 4 September
1998
We describe a 70-year-old woman presenting with large bowel
obstruction secondary to incarceration of the mid descending colon within a lumbar hernia. This was diagnosed on barium enema and successfully treated surgically.
Keywords: hernia; intestinal obstruction; colon
© 1999 by The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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