Current practices in adult groin hernias: A survey of Japanese general surgeons

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-157

  Onitsuka, Atsuyoshi ^a   Katagiri, Yoshifumi ^a   Kiyama, Shigeru ^a   Yasunaga, Hiroshi ^a   Mimoto, Hiromichi ^a  

^a Gifu Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Groin hernia; Mesh plug repair; Tension free repair

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; JAPAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 0037289177     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950300036     Document Type: Article

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