Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Inguinal hernia
HP:0000023
What it means
Protrusion of the contents of the abdominal cavity through the inguinal canal.
Inguinal hernia appears as a bulge in the groin.
Rare diseases that can present with this167
Very common80–99%
14- De Barsy syndrome
- Hyposmia-nasal and ocular hypoplasia-hypogonadotropic hypogonadism syndrome
- Lambert syndrome
- Menkes disease
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type 1
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type 7
- Müllerian derivatives-lymphangiectasia-polydactyly syndrome
- SHORT syndrome
- Sialidosis type 2
- Splenogonadal fusion-limb defects-micrognathia syndrome
- Wrinkly skin syndrome
- X-linked Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- X-linked intellectual disability, Cabezas type
- X-linked intellectual disability-Dandy-Walker malformation-basal ganglia disease-seizures syndrome
Common30–79%
43- 46,XY difference of sex development due to 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 3 deficiency
- Aarskog-Scott syndrome
- Achondrogenesis
- Alpha-mannosidosis
- Aneurysm-osteoarthritis syndrome
- Aniridia-absent patella syndrome
- Anophthalmia-megalocornea-cardiopathy-skeletal anomalies syndrome
- Arterial tortuosity syndrome
- Arthrogryposis-oculomotor limitation-electroretinal anomalies syndrome
- Autosomal dominant cutis laxa
- Autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 1
- Autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 2A
- Autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 2, classic type
- Cardiac-valvular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Cataract-aberrant oral frenula-growth delay syndrome
- Cerebellar ataxia-ectodermal dysplasia syndrome
- Classic bladder exstrophy
- Deafness-epiphyseal dysplasia-short stature syndrome
- FG syndrome type 1
- Flat face-microstomia-ear anomaly syndrome
- GM1 gangliosidosis
- Intellectual disability, Wolff type
- Isolated sedoheptulokinase deficiency
- Isotretinoin-like syndrome
- Kagami-Ogata syndrome due to maternal 14q32.2 microdeletion
- Lateral meningocele syndrome
- Lenz-Majewski hyperostotic dysplasia
- Maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 6 syndrome
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type 2
- Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome
- Polydactyly-myopia syndrome
- Primary hypomagnesemia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis with severe ocular involvement
- RNF13-related severe early-onset epileptic encephalopathy
- SCARF syndrome
- Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome
- Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
- Subaortic stenosis-short stature syndrome
- Trigonocephaly-short stature-developmental delay syndrome
- Trisomy 20p syndrome
- Weaver syndrome
- Williams syndrome
- X-linked intellectual disability, Armfield type
- X-linked intellectual disability-dysmorphism-cerebral atrophy syndrome
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