Background: Nerve identification is recommended in inguinal hernia repair to reduce or avoid postoperative pain. The aim of this prospective observational study was to identify nerve prevalence and find a correlation between neu- roanatomy and chronic neuropathic postoperative inguinal pain (CPIP) after 6 months. (Artículo completo)
Open ventral hernia repair is one of the most common operations performed by general surgeons. Appropriate patient selec- tion and preoperative optimization are important to ensure high-quality outcom
Of the more than 20 million patients undergoing groin hernia repair annually worldwide, 6% are scrotal hernias in high resource countries rising to 67% in low resource countries which represents a hea
Abstract and Other Interventional Techniques Background Although laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair was described about 30 years ago and advantages of the technique have been demonstrated, the util