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Amyand's hernia
Associated persons:
Claudius Amyand
Description:
An inguinal hernia with an appendix involved.
We thank B. Marcus Bailey, MD, for submitting information about Amyand and "his" eponym.
Bibliography:
- C. Amyand:
Of an inguinal rupture, with a pin in the appendix caeci, incrusted with stone; and some observations on wounds in the guts.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1736, 39: 329-336.
First recorded successful appendectomy. The acutely inflamed appendix, perforated by a pin, and surrounding omentum were removed through a scrotal wound while dealing with a faecal fistula in a chronic hernia. The patient was 11-year-old boy.
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