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