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Incarcerated and Strangulated Hernias in Children: A Statistical Study of High-Risk Factors

Marc I. Rowe, +1 more
- 01 Aug 1970 - 
- Vol. 101, Iss: 2, pp 136-139
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Incarceration and strangulation of the commonplace indirect inguinal hernia is still a significant management problem in children and the influence of age, side involved, sex, race, delay in, and method of management in the outcome has been statistically evaluated.
Abstract
Incarceration and strangulation of the commonplace indirect inguinal hernia is still a significant management problem in children. We have studied a series of 2,764 consecutive patients operated upon for hernia at the Columbus Children's Hospital. Three hundred and fifty-one hernias or 12.7% were incarcerated or strangulated or both at the time of admission. The influence of age, side involved, sex, race, delay in, and method of management in the outcome has been statistically evaluated.

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The patent processus vaginalis and the inguinal hernia

TL;DR: A large series of children with inguinal hernias operated upon by one group of surgeons, in a single hospital, were studied to determine the natural history of the patent processus and determine the factors that might be associated with patency of the processus.
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Outpatient Herniorrhaphy for Infants

TL;DR: Gertrude Herzfeld pointed out that indirect inguinal hernias were simply congenital defects associated with a persistent patency of the processus vaginalis and advocated performance of an elective herniorrhaphy at the time of first appearance of a hernia in all otherwise healthy infants.
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