The best laparoscopic hernia repair: TEP or TAPP?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 541-

  Trindade, Eduardo Neubarth ^a   Trindade, Manoel Roberto MacIel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LETTER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TOTAL EXTRAPERITONEAL LAPAROSCOPIC REPAIR; TRANSABDOMINAL PREPERITONEAL LAPAROSCOPIC REPAIR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON;

FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; MALE; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 80052292635     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31822acfd6     Document Type: Letter

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