Title: Colonic obstruction secondary to incarcerated transiliac bone hernia
Authors: Charalampos Seretis, Kalimuthu Marimuthu, Balasubramaniam Piramanayagam
Affiliation: Department of General Surgery, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. Address: College Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Nuneaton, CV10 7DJ, United Kingdom
Corresponding author: Charalampos Seretis, MSc, DU, Specialty Registrar in General Surgery, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. Email: charalampos.seretis@geh.nhs.uk, Tel: 07766478856. Postal address: College Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Nuneaton, CV10 7DJ, United Kingdom
Conflict of interest: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Author contributions: CS: contributed to the clinical data collection and prepared the case report; KM and BP: contributed to the design of the case report presentation and performed the final revision of the manuscript.
Keywords: transiliac; hernia; surgery; emergency
Key Clinical Message: Transiliac bone hernias are a rare cause of intestinal obstruction and high clinical suspicion is required for their diagnosis