SCIATIC HERNIA

9 February 1924

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 82 (6) , 440-442
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1924.02650320010004

Abstract

Of all forms of hernia, the sciatic type is one of the rarest, or, at least, it would appear so, if the number of recorded cases can be taken as an index to the frequency of their occurrence. A careful search of the literature on this subject reveals the fact that less than thirty cases have been reported up to the present time, and of these, only one has been contributed by an American surgeon. It is to Dr. John Edward Summers¹of the University of Nebraska that credit is due as the first surgeon in this country to report a case of sciatic hernia. In a paper read before the Western Surgical Association, Dec. 9, 1921, Dr. Summers described a case of sciatic hernia complicated with myxomatous tumor of the scrotum. This case, as far as I have been able to find in the literature at my disposal,

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