Pneumothorax as a rare complication during laparoscopic total extra-peritoneal inguinal hernia repair: A case report and review of the literature

Totally extra-peritoneal (TEP) and trans-abdominal pre-peritoneal repair are the two most commonly performed types of laparoscopic hernia repair procedures. Herein, we present a rare case of pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum that ensued during a TEP inguinal hernia repair. A 73-year-old man present...

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Autores principales: Koliakos, Nikolaos, Papaconstantinou, Dimitrios, Tzortzis, Andrianos-Serafeim, Schizas, Dimitrios, Bistarakis, Dimitrios, Bakopoulos, Anargyros
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8270041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34045398
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jmas.JMAS_34_21