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Surgical Emergencies Related to Abdominal Wall Hernias

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Understand the basic anatomy associated with hernias

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  1. Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Antonios Christos Sideris MD

  2. Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    George C. Velmahos MD, PhD, MSEd (Professor Chief)

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  1. Surgical Research Department, Clinical Division for General Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Abe Fingerhut

  2. Department of Abdominal Surgery, University of Helsinki Meilahti Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

    Ari Leppäniemi

  3. Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego Health Sciences, San Diego, California, USA

    Raul Coimbra

  4. Division of General Surgery, University of Pittsburgh UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Andrew B. Peitzman

  5. R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Thomas M. Scalea

  6. Emergency Surgery Unit, University Hospitals of Lyon Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France

    Eric J. Voiglio

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Sideris, A.C., Velmahos, G.C. (2016). Surgical Emergencies Related to Abdominal Wall Hernias. In: Fingerhut, A., Leppäniemi, A., Coimbra, R., Peitzman, A., Scalea, T., Voiglio, E. (eds) Emergency Surgery Course (ESC®) Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21338-5_25

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