Bladder hernia, bladder stone and contralateral bowel hernia: An usual combination

Abstract

We report and discuss a rare case of inguino-scrotal urinary bladder herniation (IBH) complicated with a big urinary bladder stone and contralateral indirect inguinal bowel hernia. A 68-year male patient presented to the outpatient urology department with a 4-year history of right inguino-scrotal pain and swelling, which was gradually increasing in size, and of intermittent swelling in the left groin. Physical examination revealed right irreducible inguino-scrotal hernia and reducible left inguinal hernia extending to the groin. Computerised Tomography (CT) revealed that the right side of urinary bladder was herniating through the inguinal canal into the right hemiscrotum along with a 22 mm urinary bladder stone. The patient underwent bilateral Lichtenstein tension-free mesh hernioplasty through inguinal incisions and transurethral laser cystolithotripsy in the same session. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first reported case of bilateral inguinal hernia with concomitant bladder stone in the literature.