RT Book, Section
A1 Frankel, Timothy L.
A1 Burney, Richard E.
A2 Minter, Rebecca M.
A2 Doherty, Gerard M.
SR Print(0)
ID 6563581
T1 Chapter 40. Inguinal Hernia Repair
T2 Current Procedures:  Surgery
YR 2010
FD 2010
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-145316-5
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6563581
RD 2024/04/19
AB Recent  literature  suggests  that  patients  who  are  asymptomatic  or  "minimally  symptomatic"  may  be  managed  without  surgical  intervention.All  symptomatic  inguinal  hernias  (pain,  neurologic  symptoms)  should  be  repaired  unless  a  specific  contraindication  exists.Inguinal  hernias  that  are  incarcerated  and  are  reduced  in  a  timely  fashion  should  be  repaired  on  an  urgent  basis.Hernias  that  are  unable  to  be  reduced  should  be  treated  as  a  surgical  emergency  and  repaired  expeditiously.