Table 2.

Reports on pediatric bladder injuries at the time of inguinal hernia repair

Reference	Age at surgery	Sex	Side	Type of hernia	Surgical finding	Assumed mechanism
[1] Shaw and Santulli 1967	3.5 mo.	M	Not given	Inguinal hernia, bilateral	Partial excision of the bladder	Either paraperitoneal or intraperitoneal bladder herniation into the indirect hernia sac
[1] Shaw and Santulli 1967	9 mo.	M	Not given	Not given	Not given
[2] Colodny 1974	3 mo.	M	Left	Inguinal hernia, incarcerated	Purse string on the left side of the bladder	Bladder injured with the closure of the hernia sac
[6] Bell and Witherington 1980	1 yr.	M	Midline	Infraumbilical fascial defect	Fascial closure without problems	Prematurity, penis malformation
[3] Redmann et al. 1985	4.5 wk.	M	Right	Inguinal hernia, bilateral	Subtotal bladder resection, dissection of the funiculus	Bladder incorporated into the indirect hernia sac
[3] Redmann et al. 1985	5 wk.	M	Left	Inguinal hernia, bilateral	Near-total bladder resection, dissection of both ureters
[4] Chung and Yu 1999	18 mo.	M	Right	Inguinal hernia	Near-total bladder resection	Bladder incorporated into the indirect hernia sac
[14] Koot et al. 1998	3 mo.	F	Left	Inguinal hernia	Bladder open at the top, persistent indirect hernia on the left	Prematurity, overly medial incision and dissection of the transversalis fascia
[5] Bakal et al. 2015	Infant	M	Not given	Inguinal hernia	Intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal injury	Incision on the medial site of inguinal canal

F female, M male, mo. months, wk. weeks, yr. year