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- Describes in detail the most common procedures of inguinal hernia surgery
- Provides tips and tricks in the use of new technologies
- Includes descriptions of novel pain treatments
Part of the book series: Updates in Surgery (UPDATESSURG)
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Giampiero Campanelli is Head of General Surgery – Day & Week Surgery Unit, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Milan and Full Professor of Surgery at the University of Insubria, Italy. He is a pioneer in Italy of sutureless, tension-free repair of inguinal hernia under local anesthesia. He is responsible for refining an original approach for the treatment of giant inguinal hernia, lumbar hernia, incisional hernia with loss of substance, spigelian hernia, pubic inguinal pain syndrome, and chronic postoperative pain. Professor Campanelli is principal investigator of the international TIMELI trial (randomized, controlled, patient- and evaluator-blinded study of Tissucol/Tisseel for MEsh fixation in patients undergoing the LIchtenstein technique for primary inguinal hernia repair) and principal author of the related article published in Annals of Surgery. He is also among the main authors of guidelines on prevention of chronic postoperative pain syndrome. Professor Campanelli hasbeen an invited speaker at more than 500 international and national congresses. He has taken part in several humanitarian missions in the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Ecuador, and Paraguay to make his experience available to needy people and to teach local surgeons.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inguinal Hernia Surgery
Editors: Giampiero Campanelli
Series Title: Updates in Surgery
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-3947-6
Publisher: Springer Milano
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Italia 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-88-470-3946-9Published: 21 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-3970-4Published: 30 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-3947-6Published: 01 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2280-9848
Series E-ISSN: 2281-0854
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 205
Topics: Abdominal Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Pain Medicine
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