Surgical Progress in Inguinal and Ventral Incisional Hernia Repair

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-26

  Gray, Stephen H ^a   Hawn, Mary T ^a   Itani, Kamal M F ^b,c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; HERNIOPLASTY; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38949172805     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2007.11.007     Document Type: Review

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