Prospective double-blind randomized controlled study comparing heavy- and lightweight polypropylene mesh in totally extraperitoneal repair of inguinal hernia: Early results

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 242-247

  Agarwal, Brij B ^a,b   Agarwal, Krishna Adit ^b,c   Mahajan, Krishan C ^a  

^a SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b Dr Agarwal's Surgery and Yoga   (India)

^c SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Ejaculatory pain; Groin pain; Lightweight mesh; Mesh; Mesh inguinodynia; Postherniorrhaphy pain; Sexual dysfunction; TEP

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG PAIN; MALE; MESH SLING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; FOLLOW UP; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POLYPROPYLENES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65249166916     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-0188-2     Document Type: Article

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