Sheep and goats are frequently presented with different forms of hernias to veterinary clinics. The aim of this study is to investigate the outcome of the surgical treatment of abdominal, umbilical, inguinal and scrotal hernias in sheep and goats. Fifty-eight clinical cases (sheep = 44, goat = 14) were presented to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine...

BACKGROUND Femoral hernias are less common than inguinal hernias. The use of preformed mesh to repair femoral hernias without tension has become increasingly common. We sought to investigate the safety and feasibility of repairing femoral hernias with a Prolene 3-dimentional (3-D) patch using a femoris approach. METHODS We identified all consecutive patients with femoral hernias treated at ou...

INTRODUCTION Spigelian hernias in childhood are extremely uncommon. The aim of this study was to analyse the pathogenetic factors of paediatric Spigelian hernias. PATIENTS AND METHOD A retrospective review of worldwide literature for infants who had undergone surgical repair of a Spigelian hernia from 1950 to 2006. Descriptive statistical techniques were applied and percentages and means were...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Firenze, Viale Morgagni 67/A, Firenze, 50134, Italy Abstract In this paper we review, and extend to the non-isothermal case, some results concerning the application of the maximum entropy closure technique to the derivation of hydrodynamic equations for particles with spin-orbit interaction and Ferm...

Handlebar hernias are abdominal wall hernias resulting from direct trauma to the anterior abdominal wall and also called as Traumatic abdominal wall hernias (TAWHs). They usually occur at weak anatomic locations of the abdominal wall .The associated intra-abdominal injuries are infrequent. . Such traumatic hernias are rare. We report this case of a handlebar hernia resulting from an injury sust...