Laparoscopic surgery for chronic groin pain in athletes is more effective than nonoperative treatment: A randomized clinical trial with magnetic resonance imaging of 60 patients with sportsman's hernia (athletic pubalgia)

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-107

  Paajanen, Hannu ^a   Brinck, Tuomas ^b   Hermunen, Heikki ^c   Airo, Ilari ^d  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c MIKKELI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d Diaconess Hospital of Helsinki   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC PUBALGIA; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPORTSMAN HERNIA; STAPLER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ATHLETES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GROIN; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959343144     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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