epidemiology

Last reviewed 01/2018

Femoral herniae have the following points in their epidemiology:

• third most common type of groin hernia after direct and indirect inguinal hernias
• less common than inguinal hernias in both men and women
• four times more common in women than men:
• one third of all groin hernias in women
• 2% of all groin hernias in men
• higher frequency in parous women
• twice as common on the right than the left side