Abstract

Endometriosis is the presence of functional endometrium tissue outside the uterus. It affects approximately 11% of the population [1]. Here we present a patient with atypical history who was found to have Extra-pelvic endometrosis in the sac of a recurrent paraumbilical hernia.

Keywords:Hernia; Endometriosis

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Citation

Citation: Saud Al Omani and Nouf Yassin. “Endometriosis in Umbilical Hernia”.Acta Scientific Women's Health 2.7 (2020): 14-16.

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Copyright: © 2020 Saud Al Omani and Nouf Yassin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.