Re: Mesh plug hernia repair complications [1]

American Surgeon

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 613-614

  Valenti, Gabriele ^a   Baldassarre, Emanuele ^a  

^a San Pietro Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROSIS; HERNIA; HERNIOPLASTY; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; ITALY; LAPAROTOMY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; ITALY; LAPAROTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 23944450143     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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