Randomized clinical trial of fixation vs nonfixation of mesh in total extraperitoneal inguinal hernioplasty

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1376-1379

  Moreno Egea, Alfredo ^a   Torralba Martínez, José Antonio ^a   Morales Cuenca, Germán ^a   Aguayo Albasini, José Luis ^a  

^a HOSPITAL MORALES MESEGUER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STAPLER; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL STAPLING;

EID: 10044248405     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.12.1376     Document Type: Article

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