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2. Inguinal hernia surgery - Wikipedia

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   Inguinal hernia surgery. Inguinal hernia surgery is an operation to repair a weakness in the abdominal wall that abnormally allows abdominal contents to slip into a narrow tube called the inguinal canal in the groin region. There are two different clusters of hernia: groin and ventral (abdominal) wall. Groin hernia includes femoral, obturator ...

3. Umbilical hernia - Wikipedia

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   Children with umbilical hernias, Sierra Leone (West Africa), 1967. An umbilical hernia is a health condition where the abdominal wall behind the navel is damaged. It may cause the navel to bulge outwards—the bulge consisting of abdominal fat from the greater omentum or occasionally parts of the small intestine.

4. Hernia repair - Wikipedia

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   Hernia repair is a surgical operation for the correction of a hernia —a bulging of internal organs or tissues through the wall that contains it. It can be of two different types: herniorrhaphy; or hernioplasty. [1] This operation may be performed to correct hernias of the abdomen, groin, diaphragm, brain, or at the site of a previous operation.

5. Covidien Launches Three New Hernia Care Products at ... - AOL

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   ProGrip™ Laparoscopic Self-Fixating Mesh-Seamlessly combines mesh and fixation into one device to increase the security of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair Ω,1,2,3, while eliminating the ...

6. Post herniorraphy pain syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Post herniorrhaphy pain syndrome, or inguinodynia is pain or discomfort lasting greater than 3 months after surgery of inguinal hernia. Randomized trials of laparoscopic vs open inguinal hernia repair have demonstrated similar recurrence rates with the use of mesh and have identified that chronic groin pain (>10%) surpasses recurrence (<2%) and is an important measure of success.

7. Surgical mesh - Wikipedia

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   Surgical mesh made of polypropylene, used for inguinal hernia. Surgical mesh is a medical implant made of loosely woven mesh, which is used in surgery as either a permanent or temporary structural support for organs and other tissues. Surgical mesh can be made from both inorganic and biological materials and is used in a variety of surgeries ...