Hernia repair in elderly patients

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 983-985

  Gianetta, E ^a,b   De Cian, F ^a   Cuneo, S ^a   Friedman, D ^a   Vitale, B ^a   Marinari, G ^a   Baschieri, G ^a   Camerini, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FEMORAL HERNIA; HEMATOMA; HERNIA STRANGULATION; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORCHITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTUM DISORDER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TESTIS ATROPHY; UMBILICAL HERNIA; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; FEMALE; HERNIA, FEMORAL; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 0030757249     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800840721     Document Type: Article

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