The Millikan modified mesh-plug hernioplasty

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 525-530

  Millikan, Keith W ^a,b   Cummings, Brice ^c   Doolas, Alexander ^c   Landercasper, Jeffrey ^c   Debord, James R ^c   Pickleman, Jack ^c   Farley, David R ^c  

^a Speaker's Bureau for Davol Inc   (United States)

^b University Surgeons   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEMATOMA; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SURGICAL MESH; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038032787     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.5.525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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