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What does enterocele mean?

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Noun
  1. (pathology) An intestinal hernia.
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The small intestine has millions of finger-like projections in the lumen called villi, lined by single layer of epithelial enterocele cells.
An enterocele differs from a rectocele in that it is a true hernia, lined by peritoneum and usually containing small bowel.
The abdominal sacral colpopexy offers the following advantages, consistent anatomy, most definitive enterocele repair and culdoplasty.
Central defects are often associated with the loss of Level I support at the cardinal ligaments, and patients may present with a concomitant enterocele.
A thirty-year-old woman with a history of first degree prolapse with cystocele and enterocele after ten days of normal delivery was referred for physiotherapy.

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