Figure 1.

Description of emergency surgery of IGH. This was an 84-year-old female patient whose complaint was “groin pain, vomiting, and abdominal distension sustained for 14 hours” and diagnosed as incarcerated femoral hernia with bowel obstruction. (A–C) Horizontal view of abdominal CT scan. (D) Surgical exploration through the right inguinal incision. The white arrow in A and B shows the patients had bowel obstruction. The white arrow in C indicates the strangulated femoral hernia in the right-side groin area. The white arrow in D indicates the necrotic incarcerated small bowel. IGH = incarcerated groin hernia.