Hernia repair
By: Ira M. Rutkow, guest editor.
Contributors: Rutkow, Ira M.
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 83, no. 5
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1292
Subjects: Hernia -- Surgery
Notes: "October 2003"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A selective history of hernia surgery in the late eighteenth century: the treatises of Percivall Pott, Jean Louis Petit, D. August Gottlieb Richter, Don Antonio de Gimbernat, and Pieter Camper; title: Demographic and socioeconomic aspects of hernia repair in the United States in 2003; title: Classification systems for groin hernias; title: Anesthesia for groin hernia surgery; title: The PerFix plug repair for groin hernias; title: The Lichtenstein repair for groin hernias; title: The kugel repair for groin hernias; title: Laparoscopic repair for groin hernias; title: The shouldice repair for groin hernias; title: Femoral hernia repair; title: Umbilical and epigastric hernia repair; title: Incisional hernia repair; title: Spigelian and other uncommon hernia repairs; title: Complications of open groin hernia repairs; title: Outcomes analysis for groin hernia repairs.