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01-10-2012 | Invited commentary
Unsuspected femoral hernia in patients with a preoperative diagnosis of a recurrent inguinal hernia, author reply
Authors:
N. A. Henriksen, J. Thorup, L. N. Jorgensen
Published in:
Hernia
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Issue 5/2012
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Excerpt
We would like to thank Dr. R. Bendavid for the thorough comment on our paper ‘Unsuspected femoral hernia in patients with a preoperative diagnosis of recurrent inguinal hernia’. However, we are afraid that Dr. R. Bendavid may have missed the aim of the study from which we quote:
‘The aim of this study was to examine the incidence of unsuspected femoral hernia discovered at transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair in two well-
defined groups: (1) patients with bilateral primary inguinal hernia and (2) patients with recurrent inguinal hernia’. When the aim is to examine unsuspected femoral hernias, it would be paradoxical to include patients with a preoperative diagnosis of a femoral hernia. Dr. R. Bendavid prefers to mention his series of 508 open femoral hernia repairs [
1,
2], which is of course noteworthy; however, it does not cover unsuspected femoral hernias and is therefore not within the subject of our article. …
