Inguinal hernia: Challenging the traditional indication for surgery in asymptomatic patients

Hernia

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 117-120

  Ohana, Gil ^a,b   Manevwitch, Igor ^a,b   Weil, Ruben ^a,b   Melki, Yedidia ^a,b   Seror, Dan ^a,b   Powsner, Eldad ^a,b   Dreznik, Zeev ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic; Bowel resection; Incarcerated; Inguinal hernia; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE RESECTION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; EMERGENCIES; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 2942637479     PISSN: 12654906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10029-003-0184-3     Document Type: Article

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