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Primary peritoneal adenocarcinoma detected within a femoral hernia sac.

Assarian A, Zaidi AZ, Raja MA

Department of Surgery, St. Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey, UK. aliassarian@yahoo.com

We report on a case of primary peritoneal adenocarcinoma diagnosed after histological examination of a femoral hernia sac. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of primary peritoneal adenocarcinoma detected incidentally during repair of a femoral hernia.

Published 4 May 2005 in Hernia, 9(2): 192-4.
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