Feasibility of inguinal hernioplasty under local anaesthesia in elderly patients

BMC Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Amato, Bruno ^a   Compagna, Rita ^a   Della Corte, Gianni Antonio ^a   Martino, Giovanni ^a   Bianco, Tommaso ^a   Coretti, Guido ^a   Rossi, Roberto ^a   Fappiano, Francesca ^a   Aprea, Giovanni ^a   Puzziello, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; COMORBIDITY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869440424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-12-S1-S2     Document Type: Article

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