Analysis of 3776 pediatric inguinal hernia and hydrocele cases in a tertiary center

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1767-1772

  Erdoǧan, Derya ^a   Karaman, Ibrahim ^a   Aslan, Mustafa Kemal ^a   Karaman, Ayşe ^a   Çavuşoǧlu, Yusuf Hakan ^a  

^a Dr Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Inguinal hernia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CRYPTORCHISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INFANT; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TESTIS ATROPHY; ATROPHY; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CRYPTORCHIDISM; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HERNIORRHAPHY; HOSPITAL; ISCHEMIA; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TESTICULAR HYDROCELE; TESTIS; TURKEY; VASCULARIZATION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ATROPHY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CRYPTORCHIDISM; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HERNIORRHAPHY; HOSPITALS, MATERNITY; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TESTICULAR HYDROCELE; TESTIS; TURKEY;

CHILDREN; INGUINAL HERNIA;

EID: 84881422176     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: 15315037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2012.09.048     Document Type: Article

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