Pain after inguinal hernia repair: What to do?;Algies après cure de hernie inguinale: Que faire?

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 6, Issue 254, 2010, Pages 1288-1291

  Abrazhda, Dritan ^a   Hübner, Martin ^a   Foletti, Antonio ^a   Demartines, Nicolas ^a   Vuilleumier, Henri ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; LIDOCAINE; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL;

ALGORITHM; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXPERIENCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPY; NEURECTOMY; NEUROPATHY; NOCICEPTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL PATIENT; TENSION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 77954477914     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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