The Authors report a series of 73 elderly patients undergone to Lichtenstein hernioplasty with local anaesthesia. Treatment of inguinal hernia in emergency involves a high mortality; on the contrary, the lack of complications and a very good patient compliance shows that elective repair of inguinal hernia should be preferred and performed in the elderly.
[Surgery of inguinal hernias in the geriatric patient] / Palumbo, Piergaspare; Pulcini, Massimo; Vietri, Francesco; R., Turano; Luca Salvatore, Gallinaro; Giuseppe, Montesano; V., Martinelli. - In: IL GIORNALE DI CHIRURGIA. - ISSN 0391-9005. - STAMPA. - 18:10(1997), pp. 692-694.
[Surgery of inguinal hernias in the geriatric patient].
PALUMBO, Piergaspare;PULCINI, Massimo;VIETRI, Francesco;
1997
Abstract
The Authors report a series of 73 elderly patients undergone to Lichtenstein hernioplasty with local anaesthesia. Treatment of inguinal hernia in emergency involves a high mortality; on the contrary, the lack of complications and a very good patient compliance shows that elective repair of inguinal hernia should be preferred and performed in the elderly.File allegati a questo prodotto
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