hernia

• Women suffer inguinal hernias less commonly than men but a different kind of hernia, a femoral hernia, occurs more often in women than men and a doctor can diagnose this by examination. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• Operation is a superior treatment for a hernia which is giving symptoms and being of advanced age or having medical complications should not prevent repair being performed due to safer general and local anaesthetics. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• And now their leading man has gone off sick: poor Rowan Atkinson is going under the knife for a hernia, meaning that —  The Guardian World News
• Part one covers the description of what a hernia is and its surgical and non-surgical treatment, moving on now to laparoscopy and post op management. —  Article Source
• To reduce this en masse would be very unsafe it is necessary carefully to unravel it, and disengage the knuckle of bowel which is almost certainly included in it, and which has given rise to the symptoms of strangulation OPERATION FOR STRANGULATED UMBILICAL HERNIA.--The operation is practically the same, whether the hernia is a true umbilical one, or one which with more strict accuracy might be called ventral. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners

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