Inguinal hernia repair in a community setting: Implications for the elderly

Hernia

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-42

  Rogers, F B ^b   Guzman, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Complications; Elderly; Inguinal hernia; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLEEDING; CASE STUDY; CELLULITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOMA; HEPATITIS; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTESTINE NECROSIS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALABSORPTION; MALE; MESH SLING; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEURALGIA; OBESITY; ORCHITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCROTAL HEMATOMA; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SMOKING; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYNCOPE; TESTIS ATROPHY; URINE RETENTION;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 79951724287     PISSN: 12654906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10029-010-0733-5     Document Type: Article

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