An Experience with Repair of Incisional Hernias
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
A review study of 78 cases of incisional hernia repair is presented, performed over a period of four years, i-e. December 1986 to December 1990. Repair of incisional hernia accounted for 5.2% of repairs of all herniae. Various factors causing this iatrogenic hernia are identified, leading being pulmonary disease before surgery and in the immediate postoperative period and wound contamination.
Article Details
Work published in JPMI is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.