The condition is an eponymous disease named after a French surgeon, Claudius Amyand (1660–1740),[3] who performed the first successful appendectomy in 1735.
Management should be individualized according to appendix's inflammation stage, presence of abdominal sepsis, and comorbidity factors.
[8] Even though it is practically impossible clinically, preoperative diagnosis of Amyand's hernia is possible with CT and ultrasound technology.
The appendix can be seen directly inside the inguinal canal using CT. Amyand's hernia was also discovered by chance during a barium enema.
On December 6, 1735, he carried out the first successful appendicectomy on an 11-year-old boy named Hanvil Anderson, who had been diagnosed with a fistula discharging feces in the groin.