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Case Reports
. 2022 Jan 17;194(2):E50.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.211095.

Obturator hernia

Hiroaki Nakagawa  1 , Tsukasa Asakura  2 , Sugihiro Hamaguchi  2
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Case Reports

Obturator hernia

Hiroaki Nakagawa et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
(A) Axial and (B) coronal views from computed tomography scans of an 89-year-old woman with obturator hernia, showing a fluid-filled segment of the small intestine (asterisk) that entered into the space between the left obturator externus (arrow) and pectineus muscles (arrowhead).
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