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ArticleCureus2017

Hernioscopy in Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia Spontaneously Reduced after General Anesthesia Induction.

Irwin C White-Gittens, Aleksandr Kalabin, Vishnu R Mani, Anant Dinesh, Raja Sabbagh

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Article in Cureus, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Irwin C White-GittensDepartment of General Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons at Harlem Hospital Center.
Aleksandr KalabinDepartment of General Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons at Harlem Hospital Center.
Vishnu R ManiDepartment of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, and the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, Columbia University School of Physicians and Surgeons at Harlem Hospital Center.
Anant DineshDepartment of General Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons at Harlem Hospital Center.
Raja SabbaghDepartment of General Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons at Harlem Hospital Center.
Columbia University · USNew York University · USRoyal College of Physicians · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hernioscopy is essentially hernia sac laparoscopy. Hernia repair has evolved over the years with better outcomes; however, strangulated inguinal hernias are acute surgical emergencies which require emergent operative intervention. During anesthesia induction and/or after incision, hernia self-reduction is possible, with or without compromised bowel, back into the abdominal cavity. It is pivotal to examine the bowel to decide on further operative course. A simple alternative to unnecessary laparotomy or standard laparoscopy is hernioscopy, which is quite uncommon. We present a case of an acute symptomatic strangulated left-sided inguinal hernia which got self-reduced during anesthesia induction and was successfully repaired after hernioscopy was used to evaluate the incarcerated hernia content. We provide a brief review of literature about hernioscopy and an algorithm to guide surgeons in emergent cases.

Indexed as

bowel necrosishernioscopyincarcerated herniainguinal hernialaparoscopy

Identifiers

PMID29348992
PMCPMC5768316
OpenAlexW2770357387

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