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Individualization Treatment of Inguinal Hernia in Children

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The incidence of inguinal hernia in children less than 18 years of age ranges from 0.8 to 4.4% [1]. About 85% of children with an inguinal hernia present with a unilateral hernia. The incidence of incarceration in untreated hernias in infants and young children varies between 6 and 18%, but it increases to approximately 30% in infancy [2]. A surgical intervention for inguinal hernia is one of the most common operations performed in children [3]. The individualized treatment program was established for pediatric inguinal hernia in authors’ department and provided a relatively reasonable surgical treatment. This chapter was mainly to describe the individualized treatment program applied to pediatric inguinal hernia.

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Chen, J., Shen, Y., Chu, C., Zou, Z., Yuan, X. (2018). Individualization Treatment of Inguinal Hernia in Children. In: Campanelli, G. (eds) The Art of Hernia Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72626-7_20

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