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Femoral Hernia Repair

Prevalence of inguinal hernia repair stratified by age and gender. Femoral hernia repair generally increases with age for both male and female, while Inguinal hernia repair has an early postnatal peak occurring more frequently in males. These hernias occur just below the inguinal ligament, when abdominal contents pass through the naturally occurring weakness, the femoral canal.

The results indicate the percentage of persons at a given age in the population who were operated for an inguinal hernia during the study period.

The study population covered n = 5,639,885 persons including 2,799,105 males and 2,840,780 females. Within this population 46,717 persons, 88.6% males and 11.4% females, had at least one groin hernia repair during the five year study period.

Example: 4.14% CI 4.0–4.29% of all males aged 75–80 years in Denmark were operated for an inguinal hernia at least once during the study period.

Editor Note - while hernias are a musculoskeletal abnormality, they are mainly discussed on this current site in relation to genital system abnormalities and inguinal hernias.

Hernia Links: Graph - Inguinal hernia repair | Graph - Inguinal hernia repair numbers | Graph - Femoral hernia repair | Genital Abnormalities | Musculoskeletal Development | ICD10 K40.90 Unilateral inguinal hernia

Reference

Burcharth J, Pedersen M, Bisgaard T, Pedersen C, Rosenberg J Nationwide Prevalence of Groin Hernia Repair PLoS ONE 8(1): e54367. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054367 (2013) PLoS ONE

Copyright

© 2013 Burcharth et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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