Hernia de Amyand encarcelada en paciente anciano: reporte de caso y revisión de literatura.

The Amyand hernia was described by Claudius Amyand in 1735 and is currently considered a rare entity that occurs in 1 % of all inguinal hernias in adults. This pathology consists of the finding of a rare presentation of hernias, where the cecal appendix is located within the inguinal hernial sac, without inflammatory characteristics in most cases. Evidently, a key concept associated with the hernia in question is acute appendicitis or also known as the most frequent surgical abdominal pathology predominantly in young people with a lifetime incidence of 7 %, presenting in patients over 60 years of age in a 5-10 % of cases. In the present review, we report the case of a male in the ninth decade of life who comes to a hospital with a symptomatic inguinal hernia, with signs of incarceration and associated intestinal obstruction, with intraoperative finding of Amyand hernia type 3 in the Losanoff and Basson classification, constituting a rare case of incarcerated Amyand hernia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]