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Frequency of abdominal wall hernias: is classical teaching out of date?
OBJECTIVES: Abdominal wall hernias are common. Various authors all quote the following order (in decreasing frequency): inguinal, femoral, umbilical followed by rarer forms. But are these figures outdated? We investigated the epidemiology of hernia repair (retrospective review) over 30 years to dete...
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Royal Society of Medicine Press
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031184/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21286228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/shorts.2010.010071 |