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ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2018

Laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal repair of strangulated femoral hernia: Superiority of an unusual emergency surgical approach due to a case.

Mehmet Tolga Kafadar, Mehmet Ali Gök

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Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mehmet Tolga KafadarHealth Sciences University Mehmet Akif İnan Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of General Surgery, Şanlıurfa, Turkey.
Mehmet Ali GökHealth Sciences University Derince Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of General Surgery, Kocaeli, Turkey.
Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi · TRŞanlıurfa Mehmet Akif İnan Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi · TR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionInguinal hernia repair is one of the most common operations of general surgery. In order to avoid complicated and urgent cases, performing such operations electively is generally accepted. Otherwise, unforeseen emergency surgical situations accompanied by incarceration and strangulation may occur. CASE PRESENTATION: In this article, we present a 45-year-old female patient with strangulated femoral hernia repair that we performed using the laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal method, unlike other conventional methods. DISCUSSION: Early diagnosis and elective surgical treatment have an important role in hernia surgery, especially due to increased morbidity and mortality. Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair has developed in the recent years as a prominent method and nowadays it is performed much easier than the open method even in urgent and challenging cases.

conclusionThe transabdominal preperitoneal method has superiority over the conventional method in terms of ensuring that intestinal loop is visible during the strangulated femoral hernia repair and that the feeding of the intestine is intact.

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Femoral herniaLaparoscopic surgeryStrangulation

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PMID30455874
PMCPMC6231243
OpenAlexW2896242449

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