Inguinal Hernias

Inguinal Hernias

Last updated: 8/31/12, 8/1/13

You are a medical student, surgery resident, nurse, or other healthcare professional who has been tasked with learning about and reviewing: INGUINAL HERNIAS.

You may be a patient, or have a family member who was recently diagnosed with AN INGUINAL HERNIA.

You need this information either for a board exam (eg. USMLE, COMLEX, ABSITE, General Surgery Board Exam, Internal Medicine Board Exam, Family Medicine Board Exam, etc) and/or to take care of patients. You need to know the associated eponyms, epidemiology, pathology, pathophysiology, pertinent history and physical exam findings, laboratory and radiologic workup, treatments, complications, and prognosis.

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This work will also be updated with relevant information from current journal articles and review books.


KEYWORDS
- inguinal hernias, direct inguinal hernias, indirect inguinal hernias


TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Educational videos
- Risk factors
- Statistics and Epidemiology
- Nyhus classification of groin hernias
- Inguinal anatomy
- Hesselbach’s triangle
- Iliopubic tract
- Poupart’s ligament
- Inguinal nerves
- Spaces
- History
- Physical exam
- Workup
- Indirect inguinal hernias in pediatric patients
- Direct inguinal hernias
- Sliding inguinal hernia
- Incarcerated groin hernias
- Hernia repair
- Laparoscopic hernia repair
- Postoperative pain
- Postoperative ischemic orchitis
- Recurrence