Exacerbation of Occult Femoral Hernia During Laparoscopic Prostatectomy

Laparoscopic prostatectomy has been accepted as an appropriate treatment for prostate cancer because of the shorter hospital stay and quicker recovery. We present a rare complication of groin hernia with incarceration and necrosis of small bowel following laparoscopic prostatectomy. Occult hernias a...

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Autores principales: Rosenblatt, Gregory S., Para, Raul, Conlin, Michael J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 2005
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16381371
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description Laparoscopic prostatectomy has been accepted as an appropriate treatment for prostate cancer because of the shorter hospital stay and quicker recovery. We present a rare complication of groin hernia with incarceration and necrosis of small bowel following laparoscopic prostatectomy. Occult hernias and small fascia defects may not always be apparent pre-operatively, but extension of pneumoperitoneal insufflation to extraperitoneal compartments should alert the surgeon to the possible presence of such a defect.
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spelling pubmed-30156242011-02-17 Exacerbation of Occult Femoral Hernia During Laparoscopic Prostatectomy Rosenblatt, Gregory S. Para, Raul Conlin, Michael J. JSLS Case Reports Laparoscopic prostatectomy has been accepted as an appropriate treatment for prostate cancer because of the shorter hospital stay and quicker recovery. We present a rare complication of groin hernia with incarceration and necrosis of small bowel following laparoscopic prostatectomy. Occult hernias and small fascia defects may not always be apparent pre-operatively, but extension of pneumoperitoneal insufflation to extraperitoneal compartments should alert the surgeon to the possible presence of such a defect. Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 2005 /pmc/articles/PMC3015624/ /pubmed/16381371 Text en © 2005 by the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits for noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not altered in any way.
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Exacerbation of Occult Femoral Hernia During Laparoscopic Prostatectomy
title Exacerbation of Occult Femoral Hernia During Laparoscopic Prostatectomy
title_full Exacerbation of Occult Femoral Hernia During Laparoscopic Prostatectomy
title_fullStr Exacerbation of Occult Femoral Hernia During Laparoscopic Prostatectomy
title_full_unstemmed Exacerbation of Occult Femoral Hernia During Laparoscopic Prostatectomy
title_short Exacerbation of Occult Femoral Hernia During Laparoscopic Prostatectomy
title_sort exacerbation of occult femoral hernia during laparoscopic prostatectomy
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16381371
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