Catamenial Pain in Umbilical Hernia with Spontaneous Reduction: An Unusual Presentation of a Rare Entity

Divya Pandey, Ritu Sharma, Sudha Salhan
Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2015 · vol. 9(8) , pp. QD09–11 · doi:10.7860/jcdr/2015/12778.6310 · PMID:26436005 · PMC4576598 · W2410189696
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This report details a rare case of spontaneous umbilical endometriosis within an umbilical hernia, which subsequently resolved the hernia, and was treated surgically.

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The submitted text does not contain the actual biomedical case report or study on “catamenial pain in umbilical hernia with spontaneous reduction”; instead, it largely consists of editorial statements and journal/publishing commentary for the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research (JCDR). Because the patient population, methods, results, and any stated limitations specific to the purported medical topic are not provided, the key medical finding cannot be extracted from the provided content. The only identifiable “findings” relate to the editorial experience of manuscript submission and review processes rather than biomedical outcomes. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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Abstract

Spontaneous umbilical endometriosis occurring in absence of any previous abdominal or uterine surgery is extremely atypical. Its association with umbilical hernia is very rare and hernia getting spontaneously resolved has not been reported in literature so far. Here we report a case of a patient with spontaneous umbilical endometriosis associated with umbilical hernia which led to spontaneous hernia reduction. This was also associated with multiple uterine fibromyoma and bilateral ovarian endometrioma which were simultaneously treated by total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oopherectomy along with surgical excision of the endometriotic tissue and repair of the abdominal wall defect. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first described case of spontaneous umbilical hernia reduction due to development of endometriosis.

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