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ArticleAnnals of translational medicine2016

Anatomy essentials for laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair.

Xue-Fei Yang, Jia-Lin Liu

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Article in Annals of translational medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Xue-Fei YangDepartment of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, the University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518053, China.
Jia-Lin LiuDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Shenzhen People's Hospital & Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University, Shenzhen 518020, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair is performed more and more nowadays. The anatomy of these procedures is totally different from traditional open procedures because they are performed from different direction and in different space. The important anatomy essentials for laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair will be discussed in this article.

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anatomyInguinal hernialaparoscopic repair

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PMID27826575
PMCPMC5075841

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