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Acute symptomatic hernia
O Shapira1, D Simon, H Rothstein
1Department of Surgery B, Kaplan Hospital, Rehovot, Israel.
Israel Journal of Medical Sciences
|May 1, 1992
Abstract:
Acute symptomatic hernia is a clinical entity characterized by the coexistence of acute incarceration of an abdominal wall hernia together with an acute abdominal disease. Thirteen such cases are described. Increased awareness of this entity, both pre- and intraoperatively, is probably the basis for the improved rate of correct diagnosis (60%) and the decreased mortality (7%).