The incidence and success of treatment for severe chronic groin pain after open, transabdominal preperitoneal, and totally extraperitoneal hernia repair

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 692-696

  Bright, Elizabeth ^a   Reddy, Venkat M ^a   Wallace, David ^a   Garcea, Giuseppe ^a   Dennison, Ashley R ^a  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INGUINAL HERNIA; INGUINAL REGION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GROIN; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952422178     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-010-0410-y     Document Type: Article

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