DOI: 10.36347/sasjs.2021.v07i08.004

Pages: 419-421

Littre’s hernia is the protrusion of a Meckel’s diverticulum through a herniary orifice. This rare entity is often incidentally diagnosed intraoperatively during hernia repair surgery. Meckel’s diverticulum is the most common gastrointestinal tract congenital anomaly and its frequency is 2% in the general population. A Littre's hernia is usually found in femoral, inguinal and umbilical hernia. Meckel’s diverticulum presenting as the content of an incisional hernia is an exceptional situation, only few cases have been reported in the literature. We herein report the case of a 52-year-old female patient with a history hysterectomy who presented a complex incarcerated incisional Littre’s hernia containing a necrotic Meckel’s diverticulum discovered incidentally intraoperatively.