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An Experience with Repair of Incisional Hernias

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Title: An Experience with Repair of Incisional Hernias

Authors: Abdul Samad Khan, Taj Muhammad Khan, Rehana Rahim

Journal: Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute

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Publisher: Postgraduate Medical Institute

Country: Pakistan

Year: 1994

Volume: 8

Issue: 1

Language: English

Categories
Emergency Medicine (4460) General Surgery (2196) Laparoscopic Surgery (381) Hernia Surgery (97) Abdominal Wall Reconstruction (3)

Abstract

A review study of 78 cases of incisional hernia repair is presented, performed over a period of four years, i-e. December 1986 to December 1990. Repair of incisional hernia accounted for 5.2% of repairs of all herniae. Various factors causing this iatrogenic hernia are identified, leading being pulmonary disease before surgery and in the immediate postoperative period and wound contamination.

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