Risk of death after emergency repair of abdominal wall hernias. Still waiting for improvement

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 395, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 551-556

  Martínez Serrano, M Ángeles ^a   Pereira, José A ^a,b   Sancho, Juan J ^a   López Cano, Manuel ^c   Bombuy, Ernest ^d   Hidalgo, José ^e  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^d Service of General Surgery   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL DE SABADELL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall hernia repair; ASA score; Incarcerated hernia; Intestinal resection; Perioperative complications; Strangulated hernia

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FEMORAL HERNIA; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTESTINE RESECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UMBILICAL HERNIA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 80051742670     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-009-0515-7     Document Type: Article

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