This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Gretchen P Jackson during the Mesh: Must Avoid or Must Have? on April 12 2018
Keyword(s): adolescent, athletes, child, complications, consumer health, high ligation, informatics, inguinal hernia, mesh, mesh repair, muscle repair, obese, obesity, outcomes, patent processus vaginalis, pediatric surgery, PPV, primary hernia repair, recurrent hernias, retrospective study, smoking, teenager, University of Michigan, ventriculoperitoneal shunt, VP shunt
Arguments for mesh repair for adolescent inguinal hernia–1:02
Situations in which to consider mesh repair–2:49
Retrospective study of IHR in adolescents & young adults–4:01 J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A 2018