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Objective: Amyand hernia is determined as the presence of normal or inflamed appendix in the hernia sac. It is commonly encountered in adult patients or in children up to 1 year of age. We aimed to discuss the treatment protocol of Amyand hernia cases under the light of the literature. Methods: There were 15 patients included the study in 1974 - 2010. They were admitted to Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Teaching and Researsh Hospital for elective or incarcerated inguinal hernia repair and appendix was found incidentally in hernia sacs, so appendectomy operations were performed additional procedure to hernioraphy. Results: The mean age was 40.36 (std dev 21.823), female/male ratio was ¼. Fourteen patients had right, one had left inguinal hernia but also situs inversus. Eleven cases were operated in elective condition, four patients for incarcerated hernia. We found acute appendicitis findings intra operatively in four patients. Appendectomies were done for all of the patients. Hernia repairing were performed with mesh in 3 cases, but with anatomic repairing were done in 12 patients. Conclusion: Amyand hernia is generally diagnosed intra operatively. Operation in the presence of non-inflamed appendix in the sac is controversial but inflamed appendix undoubtedly should be operated. This time, in these cases mesh usage is controversial due to the risk of infection. Generally mesh usage is accepted but in case of peritonitis anatomic repairing should be preferred

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