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TAPP: Complications, Prevention, Education, and Preferences

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Laparo-endoscopic Hernia Surgery

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TAPP is a complex technical procedure. There are many possibilities for complications which may occur intraoperatively, early postoperatively, and in the late postoperative course (. Table 10.1 and . Fig. 10.1).

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  1. Em.Director of Surgical Department Marienhospital Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Reinhard Bittner

  2. Visceral Surgeon, HernienZentrum Zürich – NetworkHernia, Zürich, Switzerland

    Jan F. Kukleta

  3. Lichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic at UCLA, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, UCLA Division of General Surgery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    David Chen

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  3. Department of General Surgery, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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  4. Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group, Department of Surgery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

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  5. Norton Thoracic Institute, Dignity Health, Creighton University School of Medicine (Phoenix campus), Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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Bittner, R., Kukleta, J.F., Chen, D. (2018). TAPP: Complications, Prevention, Education, and Preferences. In: Bittner, R., Köckerling, F., Fitzgibbons, Jr., R., LeBlanc, K., Mittal, S., Chowbey, P. (eds) Laparo-endoscopic Hernia Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55493-7_10

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