Surgery
Volume 142, Issue 1 , Pages 40-46 , July 2007

Quantification of pain in laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) inguinal hernioplasty identifies marked differences between prosthesis fixation systems

,Accepted 10 February 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2007.02.013

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