Hernia of the xiphoid process
Journal: Grekov s Bulletin of Surgery
Year: 2023

Hernia of the xiphoid process refers to rare variants of hernial protrusion. For the period from 1914 to the present, only 11 cases have been described in the official Russian-language literature. Hernial gates are either a defect of a rounded shape directly in the xiphoid process, or splitting of the xiphoid process by the type of «horns». The contents are most often preperitoneal lipoma, and 2 cases have also been described when the contents were a strand of the large omentum and a fatty appen