Rare presentation of Omental Cyst in Inguinal Hernia

Abstract

Introduction: Inguinal hernia is one of the most frequent surgery performed by pediatric surgeons and majority of the hernias are indirect inguinal hernia. Mostly the sac is empty or might contain omentun , small bowel , ovaries , fallopian tubes etc. Rarely we see patients in which sac contains huge cystic lesion. We present a case report of patient who presented to us with swelling in left inguinal region and a preiminalry diagnosis of Left inguinal hernia was made later on it was found that the hernia sac contains a huge omental cyst which remained un-diagnosed till the time of surgey. Omental cyst is one of the rarest types of intraabdominal cystic lesions in pediatric age group.