Fade or fate: Seroma in laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 325-328

  Cihan, A ^a   Ozdemir, H ^a   Ucan B H ^a   Acun, Z ^a   Comert, M ^a   Tascilar, O ^a   Cesur, A ^a   Cakmak G K ^a   Gundogdu, S ^a  

^a Faculty of Arts and Sciences   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Complication; Inguinal hernia; Laparoscopy; Seroma; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSABDOMINAL PREPERITONEAL HERNIA REPAIR;

ADULT; AGED; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SEROMA; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 31144449880     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0052-6     Document Type: Article

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