This case report presents a case of a Spigelian hernia containing an appendix, with no signs of appendicitis or ischaemia of the appendix, as shown in figure 1. This rare cause of longstanding ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Michigan Medicine found that about 1 in 6 older Americans who had undergone an operation to repair a hernia had ... has been open surgery with a ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Michigan Medicine found that about 1 in 6 older Americans who had undergone an operation to repair a hernia had repeat surgery less than 10 years later.

For example, in a study comparing suture repair of incisional hernia to mesh repair, it was found that "mesh repair results in a lower recurrence rate and less abdominal pain and does not result ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Inguinal hernia is one of the most common surgical operations world-wide accounting for 10% - 15% of all surgical procedures. Giant inguinoscrotal hernias (GISH) have been ...

Hernia surgery is probably the most performed operation in British hospitals, with 135,000 last year. But as many as one in three patients will end up having a repeat procedure because the repair ...

In our series of 710 consecutive laparoscopic total-extra-peritoneal hernia repairs over a period of 10 years (2001–2010), the authors report a rare case of delayed mesh infection developing 7 years ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Recent heavy rainfall has left a family in Jefferson County dealing with the aftermath of a landslide. “All those honeysuckle bushes and that metal fence post and these ...

Small trees could be seen growing in the hole. Multiple pipes were exposed with water flowing from them. Officials with JXN Water said they received paperwork that verified they had completed the ...