Assessment of strangulated content of the spontaneously reduced inguinal hernia via hernia sac laparoscopy: Preliminary results of a prospective randomized study

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-137

  Sgourakis, George ^a,b   Radtke, Arnold ^b   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a,b   Dedemadi, Georgia ^a   Karaliotas, Charilaos ^a   Fouzas, Ioannis ^a   Karaliotas, Constantine ^a  

^a RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hernia sac; Incarcerated; Inguinal; Laparoscopy; Strangulated

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOMA; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HERNIA SAC LAPAROSCOPY; HERNIA STRANGULATION; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REDUCTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SEROMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND SEROMA; ADOLESCENT; HERNIA, INGUINAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049143011     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e31819d8b8b     Document Type: Article

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