Acute pancreatitis is a common disease with multiple clinical and radiological manifestations, which sometimes might be very uncommon. Our case is an untypical case of extra-pancreatic complication in acute severe pancreatitis, which was misdiagnosed as incarcerated inguinal hernia on CT imaging and treated surgically. It illustrates the importance of every clinical feature in acute pancreatitis and the challenge of interpreting the radiological data.
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