Although hernias — bulges through an opening or weakness in muscle or tissue — are fairly common, they are not uniform. There ...

A retrospective German study of 70 patients finds that the less common V-TAPP technique for laparoscopic umbilical hernia ...

CPIP, a step-up treatment algorithm and prospective data platform designed to standardise care for the 8 to 17 percent of ...

John Syng Dorsey [1] once stated: The large proportion of mankind who are afflicted with this complaint; -- the great variety of forms in which it appears; -- the fatality which results from its ...

A hernia might first appear like a harmless bulge but in certain cases; a hernia could be painful and troublesome too. The ...

A male patient in his seventh decade underwent elective open right inguinal hernia repair. Intraoperatively, we discovered ...