Small bowel herniation through a caesarean section wound presenting as cellulitis: A case report
Namrata Gaikwad, Parveen Verasingam, Lee Dvorkin · 2026
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Description
Namrata Gaikwad and colleagues report in 2026 a rare case where bowel slipped through a caesarean wound and mimicked skin infection. A thirty-nine-year-old woman returned three days after her planned caesarean birth with belly pain, vomiting, and spreading redness near the scar. The wound looked clean and she had no fever, so staff first treated the picture as cellulitis.
Scans instead showed small bowel herniating through a gap beside the scar, with early blockage signs. Surgery freed and returned the bowel, which stayed healthy, so no section had to be removed. She went home four days later without problems. Only four similar cases were found in print, and later care in those cases often meant dead bowel.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Namrata Gaikwad, Parveen Verasingam, Lee Dvorkin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |