Complications of open groin hernia repairs

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1255-1278

  Stephenson, Brian M ^a  

^a ROYAL GWENT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING;

EID: 0141483369     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6109(03)00128-2     Document Type: Review

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