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Published in: Surgical Endoscopy 1/2008

01-01-2008 | Response to Letter 9562

Laparoscopic Total Extraperitoneal (TEP) Inguinal Hernia Repair Under Epidural Anesthesia: A Detailed Evaluation

Authors: Pawanindra Lal, K. N. Saxena

Published in: Surgical Endoscopy | Issue 1/2008

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We thank Chakravarthy and colleagues for their interest in our article [1] and for their comments. We appreciate their vast experience in thoracic epidural anesthesia (TEA), mainly for cardiac surgeries and more recently for laparoscopic abdominal procedures. We wish to emphasize that our series is exclusively for epidural anesthesia in laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair performed totally extraperitoneally. …
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1.
Lal Pawanindra, Philips P, Saxena KN, Chander J, Ramteke VK (2007) Laparoscopic total extraperitoneal (TEP) inguinal hernia repair under epidural anesthesia: a detailed evaluation. Surg Endosc 21:595–601PubMedCrossRef
2.
Wahal AK, Venugopal M (2002) The spread of thoracic epidural analgesia: evaluation of safety and technical feasibility with anatomical highlights and MRI studies. Ind J Anaesth 46:189–192
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Title
Laparoscopic Total Extraperitoneal (TEP) Inguinal Hernia Repair Under Epidural Anesthesia: A Detailed Evaluation
Authors
Pawanindra Lal
K. N. Saxena
Publication date
01-01-2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Surgical Endoscopy / Issue 1/2008
Print ISSN: 0930-2794
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2218
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-007-9563-7

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