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An intra-operative photograph showing a gangrenous Richter's type recurrent indirect inguinal hernia (black arrow), North-Western Ethiopia.
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After securing an informed written consent, the right inguinal canal was explored under general anesthesia and the intra-operative finding was a gangrenous anti-mesenteric border of distal ileum trapped in the deep inguinal ring with an imminent rupture, a Richter's type of recurrent indirect inguinal hernia (Figure 1).